Yellow-legged Buttonquail / Turnix tanki
Yellow-legged Buttonquail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Turnix tanki J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 12 p.180
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Turnicidae / Turnix
Taxonomy Code: yelbut1
Type Locality: No locality = Bengal, based on drawing by Buchanan Hamilton)
Author: Blyth
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TURNIX
(Turnicidae; Ϯ Striped Buttonquail T. sylvaticus) Curtailment of genus Coturnix Bonnaterre, 1791, quail (reflecting the absence of the rear toe) (cf. "The name Turnix thus signifies a small quail or 'half-quail', again hinting at the notable resemblance between buttonquails and the unrelated (and bigger) quails." (Peacock 2016)); “3e. GENRE. {Turnix. Le bec conique, mince, un peu recourbé: les narines prolongées jusqu'au milieu du bec: la langue entière. ... IIIe. GENRE. TURNIX, Turnix. ... Les pattes divisées en trois doigts & plus courtes que les rectrices: trois doigts nus, posés par devant; il n'y en a point par derrière. ... Ces oiseaux ressemblent aux Cailles par sa forme du corps; mais ils en diffèrent par la structure des pattes et par leurs mœurs. ... *TURNIX D'AFRIQUE. 1. T. Africanus. Cet oiseau, que M. Desfontaines a trouvé sur les côtes de Barbarie, se rapproche du Pluvier par la structure des pattes, qui sont dépourvues du doigt postérieur; mais il a beaucoup de rapport avec la Caille par sa conformation extérieure, son vol & les couleurs de sa livrée. Il est d'un tiers plus petit que le Caille d'Europe. ... *LE TURNIX. 2. T. nigricollis ... Le Turnix ou la Caille de Madagascar, qui est représenté dans les planches enluminées, nº. 171, diffère, à certains égards, de celui qui a été décrir par M. Brisson, quoiqu'ils soient de la même espèce. ... *LE TURNIX DE GIBRALTAR. 3. T. Gibraltarica. ... *LE TURNIX D'ANDALOUSIE 4. T. Andalusica. ... *LE TURNIX DE L'ILE DE LUÇON. 5. T. Luzoniensis. ... Ce Turnix habite l'Ile de Luçon, l'une des Manilles.” (Bonnaterre 1791); "Turnix Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Méth., Orn., pt. 1, 1791, p. lxxxii, 5. Type, by subsequent designation, Tetrao gibraltaricus Gmelin = Tetrao sylvaticus Desfontaines. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 63.)" (Peters 1934, II, 142). Note that Turnix Rafinesque, 1815, is a replacement name for "Tridactilis" (= Tridactylus) de Lacépède, 1801.
Synon. Alphaturnia, Areortyx, Areoturnix, Austroturnix, Colcloughia, Hemipodius, Marianornis, Ortygis, Ortygodes, Ortyx, Tridactylus.
tanki
Perhaps corrupted from a Hindi name Dabki for the Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus dussumier; “Among Dr. Buchanan Hamilton’s drawings is that of a species named by him Turnix tanki” (Blyth 1843). A French name for the Yellow-legged Buttonquail is Turnix de Tank (i.e. Tank’s buttonquail; Thank and Tanki are both Indian family names) (cf. Tanki or Butterfly Tree Bauhinia purpurea of the Himalayas and southeast Asia; Lepcha name Tanki for the sparrowhawk Accipiter) (Turnix).
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-legged Buttonquail (tanki)
SCI Name: Turnix tanki tanki
tanki
Perhaps corrupted from a Hindi name Dabki for the Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus dussumier; “Among Dr. Buchanan Hamilton’s drawings is that of a species named by him Turnix tanki” (Blyth 1843). A French name for the Yellow-legged Buttonquail is Turnix de Tank (i.e. Tank’s buttonquail; Thank and Tanki are both Indian family names) (cf. Tanki or Butterfly Tree Bauhinia purpurea of the Himalayas and southeast Asia; Lepcha name Tanki for the sparrowhawk Accipiter) (Turnix).
Yellow-legged Buttonquail (blanfordii)
SCI Name: Turnix tanki blanfordii
blanfordi / blanfordii
Dr William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905) English geologist, zoologist, collector in Ethiopia, Persia and India (syn. Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Calandrella, syn. Carduelis carduelis brevirostris, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, syn. Cisticola marginatus, syn. Leiopicus mahrattensis, subsp. Parus major, subsp. Prinia inornata, syn. Prunella modularis obscura, subsp. Psalidoprocne pristoptera, Pycnonotus, Pyrgilauda, syn. Strix aluco nivicola, subsp. Sylvia leucomelaena, syn. Tchagra senegalus, subsp. Turnix tanki).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)