Solomons Nightjar

SCI Name:  Eurostopodus nigripennis
Protonym:  Eurystopodus nigripennis Proc.Linn.Soc.NewS.Wales 6(1881) p.835
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Eurostopodus
Taxonomy Code:  solnig1
Type Locality:  One of the Solomon Islands.
Author:  Ramsay, EP
Publish Year:  1882
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

EUROSTOPODUS
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ White-throated Nightjar E. mystacalis) Gr. ευρωστος eurōstos  strong, stout; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; "Genus EUROSTOPODUS.   GEN. CHAR.  Bill somewhat more produced and stouter than in Caprimulgus; nostrils lateral and linear; rictus entirely devoid of bristles, but furnished with short, weak, divided and branching hairs; wings longer and more powerful than in Caprimulgus; first and second quills equal, and longest; tail moderately long and nearly square; tarsi stout, and clothed anteriorly for their whole length; toes short, thick and fleshy; outer ones equal, and united to the middle one by a membrane for more than half their length; nail of the middle toe strongly pectinated on the inner side.    TYPES.  Caprimulgus guttatus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans. vol. xv. p. 192.   Caprimulgus albogularis, Ib. p. 194, note." (Gould 1838); "Eurostopodus Gould, Syn. Bds. Austr., pt. 4, April, 1838, app., p. 1. Type, by subsequent designation, Caprimulgus guttatus Vigors and Horsfield. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 7.)  Also described as a new genus in Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837 (May), 1838, p. 142." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 189).  
Var. Eurostopdus, Eurostopus, Eurystopodus.

nigripennis
L. niger  black; -pennis  -winged  < penna  feather.