Spike-heeled Lark

SCI Name:  Chersomanes albofasciata
Protonym:  Certhilauda albofasciata Mag.Zool. 6 cl.2 p.3 pl.58
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Chersomanes
Taxonomy Code:  sphlar1
Type Locality:  Cape of Good Hope = Deelfontein (fide Macdonald, 1953).
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CHERSOMANES
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Spike-heeled Lark C. albofasciata garrula) Gr. χερσος khersos  barren land; -μανης -manēs  passionately fond of  <  μανια mania  passion  < μαινομαι mainomai  to rage; "Gen. CHERSOMANES nov. gen. *) Stelzenlerche.  Corydalis Temm. Boie 1826. — Certhilauda (!) Sws. 1827.  671.1. Ch. garrula Nob. — Certhilauda garrula Smith. Proc. S. Afr. Jnst. 1833. — id. Jll. S. Afr. Zool. tab. 106. — Certhilauda albofasciata Lafr. Mag. Zool. 1836. Ois. tab. 58.   ...   *) Von χερσος, ἡ  wüstes Land.  —  Die Gattung Alaemon unterscheidet sich durch längere spitzere Flüger und längern Schwanz, sowie durch kürzere gekrümmte Hinterzehe.  Zu Chersomanes gehören ferner: 1. Ch. africana. — Alauda africana Gm.  —  2. Ch. subcoronata. — Certhilauda subcoronata Smith." (Cabanis 1853);  "CHERSOMANES Cabanis, 1851  F — Certhilauda garrula A. Smith, 1846; type by subsequent designation (Bianchi, 1907, Bull. l'Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersb., ser. 5, 25 (1906), p. 15)." (Dickinson and Christidis (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed.,  2014, 2 (Passerines), p. 435).

albofasciata / albofasciatus
L. albus  white; Late L. fasciatus  banded  < L. fascia  band.

SUBSPECIES

Spike-heeled Lark (obscurata)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata obscurata
obscurata / obscuratus
L. obscuratus  dark, dusky  < obscurare  to darken  < obscurus  dark.

Spike-heeled Lark (boweni)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata boweni
boweni
Prof. Wilfrid Wedgwood Bowen (1899-1987) US entomologist, ornithologist, Deputy Curator Sudan Government Mus. (NH) 1924-1926 (subsp. Chersomanes albofasciata, syn. Glareola pratincola fuelleborni).

Spike-heeled Lark (erikssoni)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata erikssoni
eriksoni / erikssoni
Axel Wilhelm Eriksson (1846-1901) Swedish pioneer settler, trader, collector, naturalist in South West Africa 1866-1901 (subsp. Chersomanes albofasciata, syn. Cinnyris ludovicensis).

Spike-heeled Lark (arenaria)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata arenaria
ARENARIA
(Scolopacidae; Ϯ Ruddy Turnstone A. interpres) L. arenarius  relating to sand  < arena (properly harena)  sand; "Arenaria. Genus 72.  ...  **1. LE COULON-CHAUD.  ...  ARENARIA.  ...On le trouve sur les bords de la mer" (Brisson 1760): based on "Morinellus marinus" of Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Tringa nigro" of Linnaeus 1746, "Tringa maritima" of Linnaeus 1748, "Gavia" or "Pluvialis Arenaria" of Klein 1750, "Cinclus" of Möhring 1752, "Turn-Stone from Hudson's-Bay" of Edwards 1753, and Tringa Interpres Linnaeus, 1758; "Arenaria Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p. 48; 5, p. 132. Type, by tautonymy, Arenaria Brisson = Tringa interpres Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 271).
Synon. Cinclus, Morinella, Strepsilas.
● (Scolopacidae; syn. Calidris Ϯ Sanderling C. alba) Specific name Tringa arenaria Linnaeus, 1766; "LXV. b)  Gattung. Sandläufer. Arenaria *).  Schnabel: Wie bey der Strandläufergattung.  Füße: Eben so, nur ohne Hinterzehe.  † 1. Gemeiner Sandläufer (A. vulgaris, mihi,)  ...  Namen: Strandläufer, Sandregerlein.  Tringa arenaria. Linn. l. c. p. 680. N. 16.  Charadrius Calidris. ——  —— p. 689. N. 9.  Bechstein, N. G. D. III. S. 194.  Albini av. II. p. 48. T. 74." (Bechstein 1803);  "Arenaria (not of Brisson, 1760) Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb., 2, p. 462a, 1803—type, by monotypy, Arenaria vulgaris Bechstein = Tringa arenaria Linnaeus [1766 = Trynga alba Pallas 1764]." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (3), p. 169).
Var. Prenaria.

Spike-heeled Lark (kalahariae)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata kalahariae
kalahari / kalahariae / kalaharica / kalaharicus
Kalahari Desert, Namibia/Botswana.

Spike-heeled Lark (barlowi)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata 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).

Spike-heeled Lark (albofasciata)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata albofasciata
albofasciata / albofasciatus
L. albus  white; Late L. fasciatus  banded  < L. fascia  band.

Spike-heeled Lark (garrula)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata garrula
garrula
L. garrulus babbling, chattering  < garrire  to babble.
● ex “Caqueteuse” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 121, fig. 1 (syn. Bradypterus baboecala).

Spike-heeled Lark (macdonaldi)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata macdonaldi
macdonaldi
● James David Macdonald (1908-2002) Scottish ornithologist at BMNH 1935-1968, collector in the Sudan 1938-1939, South West Africa 1950-1951, and Australia 1962-1963 (where he emigrated 1968) (syn. Bradypterus cinnamomeus, subsp. Calendulauda alopex, subsp. Chersomanes albofasciata).
● Original spelling of subsp. name Chlamydera maculata macdonnelli Mathews, 1913 (= syn. Chlamydera guttata).
● Kenneth Campbell Macdonald (b. 1868) British officer with Burma Police 1886-1910 (syn. Lophura horsfieldii).
● Col. Marshall McDonald (1835-1895) US ichthyologist with US Fisheries Department (Mimus).

Spike-heeled Lark (alticola)
SCI Name: Chersomanes albofasciata alticola
alticola
L. altus  high (i.e. highland, mountain)  < alere  to nourish; -cola  dweller  < colere  to inhabit.
● Erroneous TL. Fife, N.E. Rhodesia, near Nyasaland border (= Isoka, Northern Rhodesia / Zambia); "Cisticola alticola  ...  Not a Cisticola (cf. steeply graduated tail of long narrow feathers; broad-based, fine-pointed first primary; lores coloured with head-top, &c.), but nearer Apalis and allies." (Lynes 1930) (Apalis).