Lalage Typica Bird

English Name:  Mauritius Cuckooshrike
Latin Name:  Lalage typica
Protonym:  Oxynotus typicus J.Orn. 13 p.160
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Lalage
Taxonomy Code:  maucus1
Type Locality:  Mauritius.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

LALAGE
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Pied Triller L. nigra) Gr. λαλαξ lalax, λαλαγος lalagos or λαλαγες lalages  unidentified bird mentioned by Hesychius  < λαλαζω lalazō  to chirp or chirrup (cf. this name is also identified with a green tree frog); "IX. Fam.  Myiotheridae.   ...   Lalage: Turdus orientalis Gm. enl. 273 fig. 2. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Lalage Boie, 1826, Isis, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Turdus orientalis Gmelin = Turdus niger Forster." (Mayr in Peters 1960, IX, 196).   
Synon. Acanthinotus, Coquus, Diaphoropterus, Erucivora, Karua, Oscarornis, Oxynotus, Perissolalage, Pseudolalage, Symmorphus.

typica / typicum / typicus
L. typicus  typical, type  < Gr. τυπικος tupikos  typical, conforming to type  < τυπος tupos  type. Epithet refers to a type species or, less frequently and not recorded here, to a specimen from the type locality. The following list is not exhaustive.
● Type species of genus Abeillia Bonaparte, 1850, hummingbird (syn. Abeillia abeillei).
● Type species of genus Saucerottia Bonaparte, 1850, beryl (syn. Amazilia saucerrottei).
● Type species of genus Hemistilbon Gould, 1861, beryl (syn. Amazilia saucerrottei).
● Type species of genus Barnardius Bonaparte, 1854, ringneck (syn. Barnardius barnardi).
● Type species of genus Coeligena Lesson, 1833, inca (syn. Coeligena coeligena).
● Type species of genus Helianthea Gould, 1848, star-frontlet (syn. Coeligena helianthea).
● Type species of genus Gazzola Bonaparte, 1853, crow (Corvus).
● Type species of genus Deconychura Cherrie, 1891, woodcreeper.
● Type species of genus Juliamyia Bonaparte, 1854, hummingbird (syn. Juliamyia julie).
● Type species of genus Oxynotus Swainson, 1832, cuckooshrike (Lalage).
● Type species of genus Melanodera Bonaparte, 1850 (syn. Melanodera melanodera).
● Type species of genus Ellisia Hartlaub, 1860, warbler (Nesillas).
● Type species of genus Pristoptera Bonaparte, 1857, saw-wing swallow (syn. Psalidoprocne pristoptera).
● Type species of genus Pyrilia Bonaparte, 1856, parrot (syn. Pyrilia pyrilia).
● Type species of genus Helotarsus A. Smith, 1830, bateleur (syn. Terathopius ecaudatus).