Mackinnon’s Shrike / Lanius mackinnoni
Mackinnon's Shrike
SCI Name:
Protonym: Lanius mackinnoni Ibis p.444,596 pl.13
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Laniidae / Lanius
Taxonomy Code: macshr1
Type Locality: Kikuyu (= Bugemaia, Kavirondo, Kenya).
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1891
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LANIUS
(Laniidae; Ϯ Great Grey Shrike L. excubitor) L. lanius butcher < laniare to tear to pieces. The shrikes were formerly known as ‘butcher-birds,’ from their habit of storing prey by impaling it on thorns and sharp twigs, giving the resemblance to a butcher’s shambles or slaughterhouse (Mod. L. Lanius (Ray 1713) shrike, butcher-bird); “I reject the compound-name of Butcher-Bird, and retain the old English name of Shrike, from the noise” (Pennant 1773). In nomenclature lanius is used in a variety of combinations for birds with stout, hooked or toothed bills or with the general appearance of a shrike; "43. LANIUS. Rostrum rectiusculum, dente utrinque versus apicem, basi nudum. Lingua lacera." (Linnaeus 1758); "Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1, p. 93. Type, by subsequent designation, Lanius excubitor Linnaeus (Swainson, 1824, Zool. Journ., 1 (1825), p. 294)." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 342). This is the fourth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy. Linnaeus's Lanius comprised ten species (L. cristatus, L. Excubitor, L. Collurio, L. Tyrannus, L. Carnifex, L. Schach, L. Senator, L. cærulescens, L. jocosus, L. Garrulus).
Var. Lanii, Larius.
Synon. Caudolanius, Cephalophoneus, Collurio, Creurgus, Enneoctonus, Fiscus, Lanioides, Leucometopon, Neolanius, Neofiscus, Otomela, Phoneus.
lanius
L. lanius butcher < laniare to tear to pieces.
mackinnoni
Dr Archibald Donald MacKinnon (1864-1937) Scottish medical officer, colonial administrator in tropical Africa (Lanius).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)