Chrysococcyx Flavigularis Bird

Chrysococcyx Flavigularis Bird

Chrysococcyx Flavigularis Bird

English Name:  Yellow-throated Cuckoo
Latin Name:  Chrysococcyx flavigularis
Protonym:  Chrysococcyx flavigularis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1879) (1879), Pt4 p.679 pl.50
Taxonomy:  Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Chrysococcyx
Taxonomy Code:  yetcuc1
Type Locality:  Elmina, Gold Coast Colony.
Author:  Shelley
Publish Year:  1880
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOCOCCYX
(Cuculidae; African Emerald Cuckoo C. cupreus) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; κοκκυξ kokkux, κοκκυγος kokkugos  cuckoo; "XXVIII. Fam. Cuculidae   ...   Chrysococcyx: Cuculus cupreus Lath. u. a." (Boie 1826); "Chrysococcyx Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 977.  Type, by monotypy, Cuculus cupreus Latham = Cuculus cupreus Shaw." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 29).
Synon. Adamatornis, Adetococcyx, Lamprococcyx, Lampromorpha, Metallococcyx.

flavigularis
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; Mod. L. gularis throated < L. gula throat.