Nechisar Nightjar

SCI Name:  Caprimulgus solala
Protonym:  Caprimulgus solala Ibis 137 p.301-307
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Caprimulgus
Taxonomy Code:  necnig1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Safford, Ash, Duckworth, Telfer & Zewdie
Publish Year:  1995
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

CAPRIMULGUS
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ European Nightjar C. europaeus) L. caprimulgus  nightjar  < capra  nanny-goat  < caper, capri  billy-goat; mulgere  to milk; “Those called goat-suckers  ...  enter the shepherds’ stalls and fly to the goats’ udders in order to suck their milk, which injures the udder and makes it perish, and the goats they have milked in this way gradually go blind” (Pliny X, lvi (ed. Rackham 1983)); this unfounded rustic superstition was for long associated with the European Nightjar; "NIGHT-HAWK (C. popetue). I have noticed, when skinning this bird, that the male, in spring, exhales a strong hircine odor.  If this is common to all birds of the family, it may have added apparent reason to the superstition from which the family name is derived." (Coues 1874); "102. CAPRIMULGUS.  Rostrum incurvum, minimum, subulatum, basi depressum.  Vibrissæ ad os serie ciliari.  Rictus amplissimus.   ...   Caprimulgus genere differt ab Hirundine, uti Strix a Falcone, Phalæna a Papilione." (Linnaeus 1758); "Caprimulgus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 193. Type, by tautonymy, Caprimulgus europaeus Linné (Caprimulgus, pre-binomial specific name in synonymy." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 196). Linnaeus's Caprimulgus, the final avian genus listed in his historic ground-breaking work, comprised two species (C. europæus, C. americanus). 
Synon. Allasma, Capripeda, Climacurus, Cosmetornis, Creapyga, Crotema, Diaphorasma, Eximiornis, Hypsiphornis, Macrodipteryx, Nyctichelidon, Nycticircus, Nyctitypus, Nyctipornis, Nyctisyrigmus, Nyctivociferator, Phalaenivora, Rossornis, Scotornis, Semeiophorus, Stelidopterus, Vociferator.

caprimulgus
L. caprimulgus  nightjar  < capra  nanny-goat  < caper, capri  billy-goat; mulgere  to milk (cf. Gr. αιγοθηλας aigothēlas  goatsucker).

solala
L. solus, solius  only, sole; ala  wing.
● "In a completely treeless area, a decomposing road corpse, perhaps a few days to a week old, was found partly submerged in soil in a vehicle track. Several feathers, including the tail, blew away as soon as they were freed from the earth, but a wing was salvaged in good condition  ...  Although a complete specimen is lacking, the wing is one of the most distinctive of any from a nightjar, and we are confident in assigning it to a new species which we name Caprimulgus solala, sp. nov. Nechisar Nightjar    ETYMOLOGY   The name for the new species derives from the Latin solus (only) and ala (a wing), owing to the availability of only a single wing from which to describe it. Ala is a noun used in apposition and therefore keeps its feminine inflection" (Safford et al., 1995) (‡Caprimulgus).