Falco coronatus Linnaeus, 1766

Schmitt, Stéphane & Gouraud, Christophe, 2024, The significance of Buffon and Guéneau de Montbeillard’s Histoire naturelle des oiseaux ([1765] - 1783) in the taxonomy of birds: General presentation and correspondence between Buffon’s “ eagles ” and the species acknowledged by Linnaeus (1758, 1766), Brisson (1759 - 1762), and Gmelin (1788 - 1789), Zoosystema 46 (16), pp. 361-409 : 398

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15. Buffon’s “Aigle huppé d’Afrique” (variety of the “Urutaurana”)

15.1. Linnaeus (1758): not considered.

15.2. Brisson (1759a: 448-450, 1763a: 128-129): “ AIGLE HUPÉ D’ AFRIQUE ”, “ AQUILA AFRICANA CRISTATA View in CoL ”, species 14 of genus IX (“Aigle”, “ Aquila ”), order III, section 1.

OBSERVATION. — No direct observation. Description borrowed from Edwards.

REFERENCES. — Edwards (1758: 31, pl. 224), “Crowned Eagle”; drawn from a living bird, “brought from the coast of Guiney in Africa”, observed at a fair in London in 1752.

DISTRIBUTION. — “Coasts of Africa”.

MODERN IDENTIFICATION. — Brisson only relies on Edwards’s plate and text, which unambiguously correspond to * Stephanoaetus coronatus ( Linnaeus, 1766) , probably immature or subadult.

15.3. Linnaeus (1766: 124): “ FALCO CORONATUS ” G42, S1, order “ Accipitres ”. REFERENCES. — Edwards (1758: 31, pl. 224); Brisson (1759a: 448).

DISTRIBUTION. — “ Guinea ” (West Africa).

MODERN IDENTIFICATION. — * Stephanoaetus coronatus ( Linnaeus, 1766) .

MODERN NOMENCLATURE. — Falco coronatus Linnaeus, 1766 is an available and valid name, the protonym of the name currently in use for the species.

15.4. Buffon in Buffon & Guéneau de Montbeillard (1771a: 139), quarto edition; (1771b: 108-110), folio edition: “Aigle huppé d’Afrique”, variety of the “Urutaurana” (see above, 14.4), or very close species. Buffon deems it possible that “Urutaurana” migrates from Brazil to West Africa.

OBSERVATION. — No direct observation. Description borrowed from Edwards.

REFERENCES. — Edwards (1758: 31, pl. 224); Brisson (1759a: 448).

DISTRIBUTION. — West coasts of Africa.

MODERN IDENTIFICATION. — * Stephanoaetus coronatus ( Linnaeus, 1766) ; it is, of course, completely different from the “Urutaurana” (whether * Spizaetus ornatus or * Harpia harpyja ).

15.5. Gmelin (1788: 253-254): “ FALCO CORONATUS ” G42, S1, order “ Accipitres ”. REFERENCES. — Brisson (1759a: 448); Edwards (1758: 31, pl. 224); Latham (1781: 27 no. 1), “Crowned Eagle”, based on Linnaeus, Brisson, Edwards.

DISTRIBUTION. — “ Guinea ” (West Africa).

MODERN IDENTIFICATION. — * Stephanoaetus coronatus ( Linnaeus, 1766) .

References

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LINNAEUS C. VON. 1766. - Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Pars I. Editio duodecima, Reformata. L. Salvi, Stockholm, 532 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 42946197