Alopecoenas Stairi Bird

English Name:  Shy Ground Dove
Latin Name:  Alopecoenas stairi
Protonym:  Caloenas (Phlegoenas) Stairi Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt24 no.301 p.7 pl.115
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Alopecoenas
Taxonomy Code:  frgdov1
Type Locality:  Samoa, probably = Tonga Islands.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1856
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

ALOPECOENAS
(Columbidae; † Wetar Ground Dove A. hoedtii) Gr. αλωπηξ alōpēx, αλωπεκος alōpekos   fox (i.e. fox-coloured); οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  pigeon; "ALOPECŒNAS, Finsch.  (Finsch, Notes Leyd. Mus. xxi. 1899.)   1. hoedti (Schl.).  (Salvad. Cat. p. 592.)" (Sharpe 1899); "Leptoptila Hoedti Schleg. (Alopecoenas Finsch) von Wetter" (Finsch 1900);  "Alopecœnas Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xxii. p. 228, July 1900.  Type (by monotypy): Leptoptila hoedtii Schleg." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 75); "Alopecoenas "Finsch" Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, p. 90. Type, by monotypy, Alopecoenas hoedti (Schl.) = Leptoptila hoedtii Schlegel." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 137).
Synon. Misophaps, Pampusana, Terricolumba.

stairi
Revd. John Bettridge Stair (1815-1898) British missionary to Samoa (Alopecoenas, syn. Megapodius pritchardii).