Philippine Cuckoo-Dove / Macropygia tenuirostris
Philippine Cuckoo-Dove
SCI Name:
Protonym: Macropygia tenuirostris Compt.Rend. 39 p.1111
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Macropygia
Taxonomy Code: phcdov1
Type Locality: Philippines = vicinity of Manila, ex Temminck, PI. col., livr. 17, pi. 100.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1854
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
MACROPYGIA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Philippine Cuckoo Dove M. tenuirostris) Gr. μακρος makros deep; -πυγιος -pugios -rumped < πυγη pugē rump; "Macropygia, Sw. Wings moderate, rounded; the first and second quills graduated, and much shorter than the third. Tail long, graduated; the feathers very broad and obtuse. The rump feathers very thick set. Bill short: the gonys angulated. Tarsus plumed. Hinder toe longer than the tarsus. M. phasianella. Pl. Col. 100. Reinwardii. Ib. 248. infuscata. Lich. (Brazil.)" (Swainson 1837); "Macropygia Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation, Columba phasianella Temminck, 1824, pl. col. 100. (not Columba phasianella Temminck 1821) = Macropygia tenuirostris Bonaparte (Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol., 3, 1882, p. 132).1 ... 1 Gray mentions two species in 1840 and again in 1841 without designating a type; in 1855 he designates amboinensis which was not one of the originally included species. Strangely enough neither Bonaparte nor Reichenbach actually designated a type." (Peters 1937, III, 75).
Var. Hacropygia.
Synon. Coccyzura, Tusalia.
tenuirostra / tenuirostre / tenuirostris
L. tenuis, tenue slender; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
SUBSPECIES
Philippine Cuckoo-Dove (septentrionalis)
SCI Name: Macropygia tenuirostris septentrionalis
septentrionale / septentrionales / septentrionalis / septentrionalium
L. septemtrionalis northern < septemtrio north.
● Erroneous TL "Northern parts of America" (= Tonga Tabu); ex “Northern Shrike” of Latham 1781 (syn. Clytorhynchus vitiensis).
Philippine Cuckoo-Dove (phaea)
SCI Name: Macropygia tenuirostris phaea
phaea
Gr. φαιος phaios grey, dark.
Philippine Cuckoo-Dove (tenuirostris)
SCI Name: Macropygia tenuirostris tenuirostris
tenuirostra / tenuirostre / tenuirostris
L. tenuis, tenue slender; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
Philippine Cuckoo-Dove (borneensis)
SCI Name: Macropygia tenuirostris borneensis
bornea / borneana / borneanum / borneanus / borneense / borneensis / bornensis / borneoensis / borneonense / borneonensis / borneus
Borneo < Malay Brunei the Barunai or Brunei Sultanate, wealthy, powerful and more extensive in the 15th century < Sanskrit Váruna water, rain.
● Erroneous TL. Borneo (= Amboina); "44. PSITTACUS. ... borneus. 6. P. macrourus ruber, remigibus rectricibusque apice viridibus, alis macula cærulea. Psittacus coccineus, cauda longiore. Edw. av. 173. t. 173. Habitat in India: Borneo." (Linnaeus 1758) (Eos). This name, albeit erroneous, is the fourth toponym in avian nomenclature.
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)