Temminck's Lark

SCI Name:  Eremophila bilopha
Protonym:  Alauda bilopha Pl.Col. livr.41 pl.244 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Eremophila
Taxonomy Code:  temlar1
Type Locality:  ? deserts of Aqaba, Arabia.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EREMOPHILA
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Horned Lark E. alpestris) Gr. ερημοφιλης erēmophilēs  desert-loving (i.e. sand-loving)  < ερημος erēmos  desert; φιλος  philos  lover; this is the Shore Lark of British authors and birdwatchers; "They frequent the sandhills upon the seashore of Carolina, and there feed on these oats, which they find scattered on the sands" (Catesby 1731); "Gattung Eremophila.   Hieher aus Europa: 1. Alauda alpestris Lin.  2. Kollyi Tem. col. 305. fig. 1.    America:  3. —  cornuta Wils. pl. 5. fig. 4.    Africa:  4. —  bilopha Tem. col. 244. fig. 1." (Boie 1828); "Eremophila Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21, col. 322. Type, by subsequent designation, O. alpestris = Alauda alpestris Linnaeus (Sharpe, 1875, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, (1874), p. 651).¹   ...   ¹ Not affected by Eremophilus Humboldt, 1811, Pisces." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 71).  Recent authors suggest that the Horned Lark E. alpestris complex be divided into five or six different species, and perhaps even more once the American subspecies have been critically studied.   
Synon. Chionophilos, Niphophilos, Otocoris, Otocorydopsis, Philammus, Phileremos.

eremophila / eremophilus
Gr. ερημοφιλης erēmophilēs  desert-loving  < ερημος erēmos  desert;
-φιλος -philos  -loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

bilopha / bilophus
L. bi-  two-, double-  < bis  twice; Gr. λοφος lophos  crest.