Peruvian Martin

SCI Name:  Progne murphyi
Protonym:  Progne murphyi Am.Mus.Novit. no.187 p. 6
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Progne
Taxonomy Code:  permar1
Type Locality:  cliffs near Talara, coast of northwestern Peru.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1925
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

PROGNE
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Purple Martin P. subis) L. progne or procne  swallow (Gr. myth. Progne, Prokne or Procne, daughter of King Pandion of Athens and wife to King Tereus of Thrace. Tereus raped Progne’s sister, Philomela, cut out his victim’s tongue and then imprisoned her. Progne discovered the hideous deed by way of a smuggled tapestry, rescued her sister, and, in revenge, butchered her own son Itylus and fed him to Tereus at a Bacchic orgy. Before Tereus could put the dishonoured sisters to the sword they were metamorphosed into a nightingale and a swallow); "I. Fam. Hirundinidae Vigors.  Hirundo Lin.  ...  Progne: Hir. purpurea Gm.  Wils. pl. 39 fig. 2. u.a."(Boie 1826); "Progne Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 971. Type, by monotypy, Hirundo purpurea "Gm. Wils. pl. 39, fig. 2" = Hirundo subis Linnaeus." (Peters 1960, IX, 85).
Var. Procne.
Synon. Phaeoprogne, Tapera.

progne
Gr. myth. Progne or Procne, daughter of King Pandion of Athens and wife to King Tereus of Thrace (see Progne); ex “Veuve à epaulettes” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Euplectes).

murphyi
● Dr Robert Cushman Murphy (1887-1973) US ornithologist (syn. Halobaena caerulea, subsp. Pelecanus occidentalis, syn. Phoebetria palpebrata, subsp. Procelsterna cerulea, Progne, Zosterops).
● Charles Barney Gould Murphy (1906-1977) US philanthropist, explorer in the Congo 1928-1929 (subsp. Oreolais pulcher).