The Key to Scientific Names
- bubulcus
Med. L. bubulcus cowherd < L. bubulus of cattle < bos, bovis cow (syn. Bubulcus ibis).
- BUBULCUS
(Ardeidae; Ϯ Cattle Egret B. ibis) Specific name Ardea bubulcus Audouin, 1823 (= syn. Bubulcus ibis); "the habits of this bird are remarkable, as it rarely fishes, but feeds mainly on grasshoppers and other insects, to obtain which the flocks commonly associate with herds of cattle grazing" (Blyth 1852); "26. Bubulcus, Pucher. 85. ibis, Hasselq. (æquinoctialis, Mont. veranyi, Roux.) 86. ?ruficrista, Verr. 87. coromanda, Steph. (russata, Wagl. caboga, Sykes.)" (Bonaparte 1855); "Bubulcus Bonaparte (ex Pucheran MS), 1855 (April), Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., Paris, 40, p. 722. Type, by tautonymy, Ardea ibis "Hasselquist" (= Linnaeus) = Ardea bubulcus Audouin." (Payne in Peters, 1979, I, 2nd ed., p. 205).
Var. Bubulcous.
