Rosy-throated Longclaw

SCI Name:  Macronyx ameliae
Protonym:  Macronyx ameliae Rev.Zool. 8 p.452
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Motacillidae / Macronyx
Taxonomy Code:  rotlon1
Type Locality:  Durban.
Author:  de Tarragon
Publish Year:  1849
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MACRONYX
(Motacillidae; Ϯ Orange-throated Longclaw M. capensis) Gr. μακρος makros  long, great; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos  claw; "MACRONYX.   ...   Bill moderate, straight, the culmen slightly arched.  Nostrils naked, large, the aperture oblong.  Wings rather short, the four first quills equal and longest.  Tail slightly rounded.  Feet long; the lateral scales of the tarsi entire; the nail of the hind toe very long and curved.   Type. L'Alouette Sentinelle. Levaill., Ois. pl. 195." (Swainson 1827); "Macronyx Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 344. Type, by original designation, "L'Alouette sentinelle" of Levaillant = Alauda capensis Linnaeus" (White in Peters 1960, IX, 142).

macronyx
Gr. μακρος makros  long, great; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos  claw, nail.

ameliae
● Amélie Louise Virginie Goislard de Villebresme Marquise de Tarragon (1788-1865) mother of French explorer and collector Louis-Charles-Léonce de Tarragon Marquis de Tarragon (d. 1897) (cf. Louise-Amélie de Turenne Marquise de Tarragon (fl. 1842) wife of Léonce de Tarragon (Beolens et al. 2014)) (Macronyx).
● See: amaliae (syn. Columba livia).

SUBSPECIES

Rosy-throated Longclaw (wintoni)
SCI Name: Macronyx ameliae wintoni
wintoni
Maj.-Gen. Sir Francis Walter de Winton (1835-1901) British Army, Military Attaché at Constantinople 1878-1883, Administrator-Gen. of Congo 1885-1886, Commissioner to Swaziland 1889 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Macronyx ameliae).

Rosy-throated Longclaw (altanus)
SCI Name: Macronyx ameliae altanus
altanus
L. altanus  south-southwest wind, sea-wind.

Rosy-throated Longclaw (ameliae)
SCI Name: Macronyx ameliae ameliae
ameliae
● Amélie Louise Virginie Goislard de Villebresme Marquise de Tarragon (1788-1865) mother of French explorer and collector Louis-Charles-Léonce de Tarragon Marquis de Tarragon (d. 1897) (cf. Louise-Amélie de Turenne Marquise de Tarragon (fl. 1842) wife of Léonce de Tarragon (Beolens et al. 2014)) (Macronyx).
● See: amaliae (syn. Columba livia).