Swainson's spurfowl

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Swainson's spurfowl
Adult bird in Kruger National Park and evening call from Pretoria, South Africa

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Pternistis
Species:
P. swainsonii
Binomial name
Pternistis swainsonii
(Smith, A, 1836)
   geographic distribution
Synonyms
  • Francolinus swainsonii

Swainson's spurfowl or Swainson's francolin (Pternistis swainsonii) is a species of

ornithologist
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Range and habitat

It is found in grasslands and woodlands of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Taxonomy

Hatchling in the Kruger Park
Chick in the Kruger Park
Juvenile bird in Zambia

Swainson's spurfowl was described in 1836 by the Scottish zoologist

specific epithet swainsonii was chosen to honour the English naturalist William John Swainson.[3] The species is now placed in the genus Pternistis that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler in 1832.[4][5] Swainson's spurfowl is treated as monotypic: the proposed subspecies lundazi is not recognised.[5]

One

13th Earl of Derby's collection which was bequeathed to the people of Liverpool in 1851. Another syntype, purchased from the South Africa Society, is in the Natural History Museum at Tring and there is also a syntype in National Museums Scotland.[citation needed
]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678860A92792338.en
    . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ^ Smith, Andrew (1836). Report of the Expedition for Exploring Central Africa from the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: Printed at the Government Gazette Office. p. 54.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
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  4. ^ Wagler, Johann Georg (1832). "Neue Sippen und Gattungen der Säugthiere und Vögel". Isis von Oken (in German and Latin). 1832. cols 1218–1235 [1229].
  5. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pheasants, partridges, francolins"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

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