The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Capricalea
(Phasianidae; syn. Tetrao † Great Capercaillie T. urogallus) Inferred French name Caprical for the Capercaillie < Scottish Gaelic capull coille horse of the wood; "Wood Capercail. Caprical des bois, - Baum Capercal. Capricalea arborea, Wood" (C. T. Wood 1836); "Capricalea C. T. Wood, 1836, Ornithological Guide, pp. 199, 223. Type, by monotypy, Capricalea arborea C. T. Wood, 1836 = Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).
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