The Key to Scientific Names
- PHOENICULUS
(Phoeniculidae; Ϯ Green Wood-hoopoe P. purpureus) Dim. < Gr. φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos the Phoenix, a bird of legend from Arabia that, at the end of its life, constructed a nest of spices, immolated itself, then rose with life renewed from the ashes; Jarocki introduced his birds as “phenomena!” (see phoenix); "RODZAY 1. (30.) ZJAWKA. PHOENICULUS. Dziób długi, sczupty, łukowaty, z góry i zę spodu zaokrąglony, z boków ściśniony, ostro kończysty. ... n.p. Upupa erythrorhynchos. LATH. Známy jch dwa gatunki. Jeden z nich żyie w południowéy Azyi, a drugi w Afryce. ... Phoeniculus unimaculatus. n. ..."Nectarinia erythrorhynchos (Upupa erythrorhynchos LATH.) e Guinea." ... Phoeniculus notatus. n. ... "Guepier à queue etagée (Upupa erythrorhynchos) d'Asie."" (Jarocki 1821); “Phoeniculus Jarocki, Zoologia, 2, 1821, p. 63. Type, by monotypy, Upupa erythrorhynchus Latham." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 250); “Phoeniculus Jarocki, 1821, Zoologiia, II, p. 63. Type, by subsequent designation (W. Sclater, 1924, Systema Avium Aethiopicarum, I, p. 233), Upupa erythrorhynchos Latham, 1790 = Promerops purpureus J. Miller, 1784.” (JAJ 2022).
Synon. Irrisor, Promerops.