Tiger Shrike

SCI Name:  Lanius tigrinus
Protonym:  Lanius tigrinus Dict.Class.Hist.Nat.ed.BorydeSt.-Vincent 13 p.523
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Laniidae / Lanius
Taxonomy Code:  tigshr1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Drapiez
Publish Year:  1828
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LANIUS
(Laniidae; Ϯ Great Grey Shrike L. excubitor) L. lanius  butcher  < laniare  to tear to pieces. The shrikes were formerly known as ‘butcher-birds,’ from their habit of storing prey by impaling it on thorns and sharp twigs, giving the resemblance to a butcher’s shambles or slaughterhouse (Mod. L. Lanius (Ray 1713) shrike, butcher-bird); “I reject the compound-name of Butcher-Bird, and retain the old English name of Shrike, from the noise” (Pennant 1773). In nomenclature lanius is used in a variety of combinations for birds with stout, hooked or toothed bills or with the general appearance of a shrike; "43. LANIUS.  Rostrum rectiusculum, dente utrinque versus apicem, basi nudum.  Lingua lacera." (Linnaeus 1758); "Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1, p. 93. Type, by subsequent designation, Lanius excubitor Linnaeus (Swainson, 1824, Zool. Journ., 1 (1825), p. 294)." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 342). This is the fourth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy. Linnaeus's Lanius comprised ten species (L. cristatus, L. Excubitor, L. Collurio, L. Tyrannus, L. Carnifex, L. Schach, L. Senator, L. cærulescens, L. jocosus, L. Garrulus).   
Var. Lanii, Larius.   
Synon. Caudolanius, Cephalophoneus, Collurio, Creurgus, Enneoctonus, Fiscus, Lanioides, Leucometopon, Neolanius, Neofiscus, Otomela, Phoneus.

lanius
L. lanius  butcher  < laniare  to tear to pieces.

tigrina / tigrinum / tigrinus
L. tigrinus  tigrine, barred or striped like a tiger  < tigris, tigridis  tiger  < Gr. τιγρις tigris, τιγριδος tigridos  tiger.
● "Je ne connais pas Alauda tigrina, Vieill., de Ténériffe, mais c'est sans doute le jeune d'une bonne espèce." (Bonaparte 1854) (syn. Alaudala rufescens).
● ex “Ficedula canadensis fusca” and “Ficedula dominicensis fusca” of Brisson 1760, “Spotted Yellow Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1760, “Figuier tacheté de jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Spotted Yellow Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (Setophaga).
● ex “Onoré de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 790, “Héron tigré” of Fermin 1769, “Onoré” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Tiger Bittern” of Latham 1785 (syn. Tigrisoma lineatum) (= ☼).
● Tigré I., Honduras (syn. Tigrisoma mexicanum).