The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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callaeas

Gr. καλλαια kallaia  cock’s wattles.
● "CRYPTORHINA.  ...  5. C. Callaeas.  Unicolor ardesiaco-cinerea, capistro nigro; palea utrinque ad mandibulae basin, margine rotundata, flava, macula basi coerulea notata; rostro pedibusque nigris; cauda cuneata.  Callaeas cinerea Forst. Icon. inedit. t. 52. (fig. opt.)  Id. Enchirid. Hist. nat. inserv. p. 35.  Mus. Lev. 1. p. 239. cum fig. mala.  Lath. Synops. 1. t. 14.  Glaucopis cinerea Gmel." (Wagler 1827) (syn. Callaeas cinereus).
● ex “Vanellus ludovicianus armatus” of Brisson 1760, and “Vanneau armé de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 835 (syn. Vanellus miles).


CALLAEAS

(Callaeidae; Ϯ South Island Kokako C. cinereus) Gr. καλλαια kallaia  cock’s wattles; the North Island Kokako C. wilsoni has blue wattles at the base of the bill, but the wattles of the extinct South Island Kokako were orange; "23. CALLAEAS (great Wattle bird of N. Zeeland). Rostrum incurvatum, fornicatum: Paleare carunculaceum: lingua lacera, ciliata." (J. R. Forster 1788); "Callaeas Forster, 1788 (March 27), Enchiridion, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, Great Wattle Bird of New Zealand = Glaucopis cinerea Gmelin." (Amadon in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 157). 
Var. CallaeusCalloeas.
Synon. Glaucopis.


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