Sirkeer Malkoha / Taccocua leschenaultii
Sirkeer Malkoha
SCI Name:
Protonym: Taccocua Leschenaultii TraitedOrn. livr.2 p.144
Taxonomy: Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Taccocua
Taxonomy Code: sirmal1
Type Locality: India = Madras.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1830
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TACCOCUA
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Sirkeer Malkoha T. leschenaultii) French name “Tacco,” given to the Jamaican Lizard Cuckoo Saurothera vetula by de Buffon 1770-1783 (“This bird has the name Tacco from its cry, which is like that word; the first syllable of this is pronounced hardly, the other following in a full octave lower than the first” (Latham 1781); Coucou cuckoo; "XXX.e Genre. TACCOÏDE; Taccocua. Bec moins long que la tête, beaucoup plus haut que large, très-comprimé sur les côtés, à mandibule supérieure très-convexe, recourbée et crochue au bout; narines peu apparentes, en fissures basales, cachées par les plumes du front; ailes courtes, pointues; tarses médiocres, robustes, scutellés, terminés par des ongles très-petits. TACCOÏDE DE LESCHENAULT; Taccocua Leschenaultii. Taille du tacco. ... Habite l'Inde. (Leschenault.)" (Lesson 1830); "Taccocua Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 2, 1830, p. 143. Type, by monotypy, Taccocua leschenaultii Lesson." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 53).
Var. Taccocoua, Jaccocua.
Synon. Acentetus.
leschenault / leschenaulti / leschenaultii
Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de la Tour (1773-1826) French botanist, ornithologist, collector in the East Indies 1801-1806, India and Ceylon 1816-1822, and Cayenne 1823-1824 (Charadrius, Enicurus, subsp. Ketupa zeylonensis, Merops (ex “Guêpier Laichenot” of Levaillant 1807), Taccocua).
SUBSPECIES
Sirkeer Malkoha (sirkee)
SCI Name: Taccocua leschenaultii sirkee
sirkee / sirki
Gujerati name Sirkeer for the Sirkeer Malkoha (subsp. Taccocua leschenaultii).
Sirkeer Malkoha (infuscata)
SCI Name: Taccocua leschenaultii infuscata
infuscata / infuscatus
L. infuscatus dusky < infuscare to make dark < infuscus dusky, blackish.
● ex “Curucáu Afeytado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 365 (Phimosus).
● ex “Perroquet à franges souci” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (syn. Poicephalus robustus).
Sirkeer Malkoha (leschenaultii)
SCI Name: Taccocua leschenaultii leschenaultii
leschenault / leschenaulti / leschenaultii
Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de la Tour (1773-1826) French botanist, ornithologist, collector in the East Indies 1801-1806, India and Ceylon 1816-1822, and Cayenne 1823-1824 (Charadrius, Enicurus, subsp. Ketupa zeylonensis, Merops (ex “Guêpier Laichenot” of Levaillant 1807), Taccocua).
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)