Pink-billed Lark

SCI Name:  Spizocorys conirostris
Protonym:  Alauda conirostris Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.99
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Spizocorys
Taxonomy Code:  piblar1
Type Locality:  Caffraria superiore ; type from north of the Drakensberg, Transvaal.
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SPIZOCORYS
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Pink-billed Lark S. conirostris) Gr. σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; Mod. L. corys  lark  < Gr. κορυδος korudos  crested lark  < κορυς korus, κορυθος koruthos  helmet; "Spizocorys  n. g.  (Al. conirostris Sundev. Vet. Ak. Ö. 1850) rostro brevi, crassius conico, culmine vix arcuato; naribus setis obtectis; colore alaudino, maculato.  Nomen: ςπιζα, passer: κορυς, alauda. (Obs. κορις, coris = Cimex, quod probe observandum)" (Sundevall 1872).
Synon. Aethocorys, Botha, Dewetia, Pseudalaemon.

conirostris
L. conus  cone; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

SUBSPECIES

Pink-billed Lark (damarensis)
SCI Name: Spizocorys conirostris damarensis
damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.

Pink-billed Lark (barlowi)
SCI Name: Spizocorys conirostris barlowi
barlowi
● Charles Sydney Barlow (1905-1979) South African entrepreneur, philanthropist, field ornithologist (subsp. Calendulauda erythrochlamys, subsp. Chersomanes albofasciata, subsp. Emarginata tractrac, syn. Eupodotis vigorsii namaqua, subsp. Spizocorys conirostris).
● Chester Barlow (1874-1902) US ornithologist, first editor of journal The Condor (subsp. Poecile rufescens).

Pink-billed Lark (harti)
SCI Name: Spizocorys conirostris harti
harti
Prof. Dr Robert C. Hart (b. 1947) Rhodesian limnologist, ornithologist, collector, photographer (subsp. Eremopterix verticalis, subsp. Spizocorys conirostris).

Pink-billed Lark (makawai)
SCI Name: Spizocorys conirostris makawai
makawa / makawai
Jali Makawa (?1914-1995) Nguru (Mozambique) hunter, taxidermist, collector for C. W. Benson in Northern Rhodesia / Zambia, Abyssinia / Ethiopia and Mozambique (subsp. Chlorophoneus olivaceus, ‡Pogoniulus, subsp. Spizocorys conirostris).

Pink-billed Lark (crypta)
SCI Name: Spizocorys conirostris crypta
crypta
Gr. κρυπτος kruptos  hidden, obscure, concealed (cf. L. crypta cave, cavern).
● "the scientific name emphasises that this form was overlooked in earlier revisions of the group" (Fjeldså et al. 2006) (Batis).

Pink-billed Lark (conirostris)
SCI Name: Spizocorys conirostris conirostris
conirostris
L. conus  cone; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.