The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Diplopsalis

(Caprimulgidae; syn. Hydropsalis † Ladder-tailed Nightjar H. climacocerca) Gr. διπλος diplos  double  < δυο duo  two; ψαλις psalis, ψαλιδος psalidos  pair of scissors; "Genus 6.  HYDROPSALIS.  ...  Subgen. 1. Primaries crossed by a broad white wing-band; tail doubly forked; outer pair of rectrices of male of the same length as the medial pair. . . . Diplopsalis.   ...   Subgen. 1.  Diplopsalis.   1. HYDROPSALIS TRIFURCATA.  Hydropsalis climacocercus, Tsch. F. P. p. 128, pl. 6. f. 1; Cassin, l. c. p. 118 (?).   H. trifurcatus, Natt. MS. no. 779; Tsch. l. c. p. 128.   ...   2. HYDROPSALIS SCHOMBURGKI.  Hydropsalis schomburgki, G. R. Gray in Mus. Brit." (P. Sclater 1866); "Diplopsalis P. Sclater, 1866, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 141.  Type, by subsequent designation (J. Peters, 1940, Check-list Birds World, IV, p. 218), Caprimulgus climacocercus von Tschudi, 1844." (JAJ 2020).


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