Ribbon-tailed Drongo

SCI Name:  Dicrurus megarhynchus
Protonym:  Edolius megarhynchus Voy.AstrolabeZool. 1 p.184
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Dicruridae / Dicrurus
Taxonomy Code:  ritdro1
Type Locality:  ? ''Dorey, New Guinea, error for Port Praslin, New Ireland.
Author:  Quoy & Gaimard
Publish Year:  1830
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

DICRURUS
(Dicruridae; † Balicassiao D. balicassius) Gr. δικρος dikros  forked; ουρα oura  tail; "125. DRONGO, Dicrurus.  Lanius, Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec couvert de soies à la base, robuste; mandibule supérieure un peu carénée en dessus, échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Queue fourchue. — Rectrices 10.   Esp. Balicasse. — Fingah. — Drongo, Buff.  ...  Dicrurus [δικρους, furcatus, ουρα, cauda]." (Vieillot 1816); "Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816 (April 14), Analyse, p. 41.  Type, by subsequent designation, ["Balicasse" of de Buffon =] Corvus balicassius Linnaeus (G. R. Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 47)." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 138).   
Var. Dicruratus (probably an involuntary lapsus or portmanteau of specific combination Dicrurus longicaudatus Hay, 1868), Dicrourus, Dicturus (OD per Martin Schneider).   
Synon. Balicassius, Bhringa, Bhuchanga, Bonaparteis, Chaptia, Chibia, Cometes, Criniger,  Dicrachibia, Dicranostreptus, Dicruropsis, Dissemuroides, Dissemuropsis, Dissemurulus, Dissemurus, Drongo, Drongus, Drymonax, Edolius, Edoliuta, Entomoletes, Melisseus, Musicus, Notochibia, Prepopterus, Trichometopus.
• (Dicruridae; syn. Dicrurus † Black Drongo D. macrocercus) "Dicrurus (Auct)  Bhuchanga." (Hodgson 1841); "Dicrurus Hodgson, 1841, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X (1), (no. 109), p. 29.  Classical replacement name for Bhuchanga Hodgson, a local substantive name considered inappropriate by some." (JAJ 2020) (see Alcopus).

megarhyncha / megarhynchos / megarhynchus
Gr. μεγα mega  much  < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great, long; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

MEGARYNCHUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Boat-billed Flycatcher M. pitangua) Gr. μεγα mega  much  < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "Pitangua et sulphuratus valde similes sunt, ille vero major est pileo aureo, hic minor.  Genus hocce Novum ab illustrissimo Ornithologo Equite TEMMINCK dudum dictum fuit Platyrhynchos; cum vero idem nomen ante multos abhinc annos Insecti cuidam Generi inter Coleoptera rostrata dicatum fuerit; necessitas requirit, ut aliud illi tribuatur nomen genericum: nimirum MEGARYNCHUS a Celeberrimo Præside appellatus.  Idem ille celebris Vir, Eques Temminck, etiam Lanium caijanum separavit a Lanii genere, et novum exinde constituit Genus, cui nomen dedit Psaris, licet hæc species videatur cum Megaryncho posse conjungi.   Corvus flavus LINNÆI ad Megarynchum referendus" (Thunberg 1824) (OD per Laurent Raty); "Megarynchus Thunberg, 1824, Dissert. de genere Megaryncho praes. Schaerstrom, p. 2. Type, by subsequent designation (Heine, 1859, Journ. f. Ornith., 7, p. 340), Lanius pitangua Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 209).
Var. Megarhynchus.
Synon. Megastoma, Scaphorynchus.