Tockus Jacksoni Bird

Jackson\'s Hornbill / Tockus jacksoni

Tockus Jacksoni Bird

English Name:  Jackson's Hornbill
Latin Name:  Tockus jacksoni
Protonym:  Lophoceros jacksoni Ibis p.127
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Tockus
Taxonomy Code:  jachor1
Type Locality:  Turkwell, Siik.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1891
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TOCKUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Red-billed Hornbill T. erythrorhynchus) "Les nègres du Sénégal lui ont donné le nom de tock, & nous avons cru devoir de lui conserver" (de Buffon 1770-1783) (cf. "Buceros galeatus [= Rhinoplax vigil] ... This species is called Toko ...  in Sumatra" (Raffles 1822)); "Sous-genre. TOCK; Tockus.  Bec recourbé, élevé, très-comprimé, à arête vive, à bords lisses et dentelés.   1. CALAO TOCK; Buceros erythrorhynchus, Briss., pl. 46, fig. 2. Enl., 260; Levaill., pl. 238; Buceros nasutus, Var. B.  ...  Habite le Sénégal" (Lesson 1830); "Tockus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 4, 1830, p. 252. Type, by subsequent designation, Buceros erythrorhynchus Brisson i.e. Temminck. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1945, V, 254).
Var. Toccus, Tocus (variant French name "Toc"), Poccus.
Synon. Alophius, Nototockus, Xanthorhynchus.

jacksoni / jacksonii
● Sidney William Jackson (1873-1946) Australian oologist, taxidermist, collector and curator for H. L. White 1907-1927 (subsp. Atrichornis rufescens, syn. Eopsaltria chrysorrhos magnirostris, syn. Gerygone fusca).
● Sir Frederick John Jackson (1860-1929) English explorer, colonial administrator, Lt.-Gov. of East Africa Protectorate 1907-1911, Gov. of Uganda 1911-1917, naturalist, collector (subsp. Acrocephalus gracilirostris, Apalis, subsp. Aplopelia simplex, syn. Bathmocercus rufus vulpinus, subsp. Chlorophoneus bocagei, Cryptospiza, syn. Cuculus clamosus, Euplectes, syn. Illadopsis pyrrhoptera, syn. Mirafra poecilosterna, subsp. Nectarinia tacazze, subsp. Neotis denhami, subsp. Phoeniculus bollei, syn. Platysteira peltata mentalis, Ploceus, syn. Pogoniulus coryphaea hildamariae, subsp. Pogoniulus bilineatus, Pternistis, subsp. Sylvia lugens, subsp. Sylvietta whytii, Tockus, syn. Trachyphonus erythrocephalus versicolor, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).
● C. Jackson (fl. 1829) English naturalist, collector (syn. Larus argentatus).
● Alfred Sloan Jackson (1901-1994) US teacher, biologist, pioneer gamebird field-researcher in Texas (syn. Vireo plumbeus).