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Tawny-collared Nightjar
The tawny-collared nightjar (''Antrostomus salvini'') is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Taxonomy and systematics The tawny-collared nightjar was originally described as ''Caprimulgus salvini''; ''Antrostomus'' was later split as a separate genus. It and the Yucatan nightjar (''A. badius'') were for a time considered subspecies of the silky-tailed nightjar (''A. sericocaudatus''). The tawny-collared nightjar is monotypic.Schulenberg, T. S., M. d. C. Arizmendi, C. I. Rodríguez-Flores, C. A. Soberanes-González, A. Johnson, and J. Sousa (2020). Tawny-collared Nightjar (''Antrostomus salvini''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.tacnig1.01 retrieved October 15, 2021 Description The tawny-collared nightjar is long. One female weighed . The male's upperparts are blackish brown; the crown has blackish spots and the back and rump have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Hartert
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist. Life and career Hartert was born in Hamburg, Germany on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with whom he had a son named Joachim Karl (Charles) Hartert, (1893–1916), who was killed as an English soldier on the Somme. Together with his wife, he was the first to describe the blue-tailed Buffon hummingbird subspecies (''Chalybura buffonii intermedia'' Hartert, E & Hartert, C, 1894). The article ''On a collection of Humming Birds from Ecuador and Mexico'' appears to be their only joint publication. Hartert was employed by Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild as ornithological curator of Rothshild's private Natural History Museum at Tring, in England from 1892 to 1929. Hartert published the quarterly museum periodical ''Novitates Zoologicae'' (1894–39) with Rothschild, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
