White-tailed Shrike

SCI Name:  Lanioturdus torquatus
Protonym:  Lanioturdus torquatus Exped.int.Afr.[Alexander] 2 App. p.264
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Platysteiridae / Lanioturdus
Taxonomy Code:  whtshr1
Type Locality:  Bull''s Mouth Pass, Boschman Land [inland from Walvis Bay].
Author:  Waterhouse
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LANIOTURDUS
(Platysteiridae; Ϯ Ground Batis L. torquatus) Portmanteau of genera Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike, and Turdus Linnaeus, 1758, thrush; the Ground Batis was formerly and widely known as the White-tailed Shrike; “Genus LANIOTURDUS, Waterh.   ...   Sp. L. TORQUATUS, Waterh.   ...   Not finding this bird described in the various works which I have consulted, nor yet being acquainted with a genus into which it can conveniently be placed, I have been under the necessity of characterizing a new genus for its reception. Its general characters indicate that its true affinities are with the Laniadæ, and it appears most nearly related to the members of the sub-family Thamnophilina of Swainson. Its thrush-like beak, short square tail, and long tarsi, however, will serve to distinguish it generally. It has the long and soft rump-feathers which are always found in the Thamnophili.” (Waterhouse 1838); "Lanioturdus Waterhouse, 1838, in Alexander, Exped. Int. Afr., 2, App., p. 264. Type, by monotypy, Lanioturdus torquatus Waterhouse." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 314).
Synon. Hypsipus, Moquinus.

torquatus
L. torquatus  collared  < torques  collar, necklace  < torquere  to twist.
● ex “Tangara de la Guyane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 742 (syn. Arremon taciturnus).
● ex “Pic à cravate noire” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 863 (Celeus).
● ex “Pluvier à collier” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Charadrius hiaticula).
● ex “Ring Plover” of Leach 1816 (syn. Charadrius hiaticula).
● ex “Pluvier à collier de S. Domingue” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Charadrius vociferus ternominatus).
● ex “Clouded Shrike” of Latham 1787 (Cracticus).
● ex “Barbu à Plastron Noir” of Levaillant 1806 (Lybius).
● ex “Ring Pheasant” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Phasianus colchicus).
● ex “Perruche à collier” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 551, and “Perruche à collier couleur de rose” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Psittacula krameri).
● ex “Cochitenacatl” of Hernandez 1651, “Toucan à collier du Méxique” of Brisson 1760, “Cochicat” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Collared Toucan” of Latham 1781 (Pteroglossus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à collier du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of Brisson 1760 (Saxicola).
● "95. TURDUS.  ...  torquatus.  13. T. nigricans, torque albo, rostro flavescente. Faun. svec. 185.  Merula torquata. Gesn. av. 607. Aldr. orn. l. 16. t. 11. Will. orn. 143. t. 37. Raj. av. 65. n. 2. Alb. av. I. p. 37. t. 39. Frisch. av. 30. f. 1. 2.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Turdus).
● ex “Perruche à collier” of de Buffon 1770-1783, “Petite Perruche à collier de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Collared Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (unident.).