The Key to Scientific Names

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Micropus

Gr. μικροπους mikropous, μικροποδος mikropodos  small-footed  < μικρος mikros  small; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.
● (Apodidae; syn. Apus † Common Swift A. apus) "Segler. Micropus *)  ...  Sie haben einen sehr hohen, schwimmenden Flug, bewegen nur selten die Flügel und kommen fast nie auf die Erde, von welcher sie auch ihrer kurzen Füße und langen Flügel halber nicht wieder auffliegen können.  ...  *)  ..  Die unter dem Namen Hirundo Apus abgebildete Figur gehört daher zur zweiten Gattung und ist oben in der Beschreibung unter dem Namen: Micropus murarius aufgestellt" (Meyer & Wolf 1810); "Micropus Meyer & Wolf, Taschenb. d. Vögel, p. 280, (pref. Aug. 20th, 1809) 1810.  Type (by subsequent designation, Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. xvi. p. 437, (pref. June 12th) 1892: Hirundo apus Linné." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 405) (see Apus).
● (Pycnonotidae; syn. Brachypodius † Black-headed Bulbul B. atriceps) "12. Genus, MICROPUS.   Bill as long as the head, straight, somewhat conic, the gonys ascending. Rictus and nostrils surrounded with weak diverging bristles. Tarsi very short; the scales undivided; lateral toes unequal; hinder toe as long as the tarsus. Wings moderate, rounded; tail even.   Type.—T. chalcocephalus, TEMM., pl. col. 483.  Turdus bicolor, GRAY; and three other species.  India." (Swainson 1832); "Micropus Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. Birds (1831), p. 486.  Type, by subsequent designation, Turdus chalcocephalus Temminck. (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 58.)  Not Micropus B. Meyer and Wolf, 1810." (Deignan in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 223); "145. Brachypodius atriceps  ...  Forms described as chalcocephalus (Bantam district, in Java) and cinereoventris (Tippera district, in Bangladesh) shown to be variations of grey morph of present species" (del Hoyo and Collar, 2016, HBW Illustrated Checklist, 2, Passerines, p. 480).


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