Calicalicus

Calicalicus is a genus of bird in the family Vangidae. It contains two species,[1] both of which are endemic to Madagascar:[2]

Calicalicus
Red-tailed vanga (Calicalicus madagascariensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Vangidae
Genus:	Calicalicus Bonaparte, 1854
Species
C. madagascariensis C. rufocarpalis

Species

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Calicalicus madagascariensis	Red-tailed vanga	Madagascar.
	Calicalicus rufocarpalis	Red-shouldered vanga	south-west Madagascar

The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854 with the red-tailed vanga as the type species.[3] The name Calicalicus is from the Malagasy word Cali-cali reported by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson for the male red-tailed vanga.[4]

References

1. "ITIS Report: Calicalicus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
2. Morris, Pete; Hawkins, Frank (1998). Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Guide. Mountfield, UK: Pica Press. p. 242. ISBN 1-873403-45-3.
3. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 38: 386, 535.
4. Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Volume 2. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 164–166, Plate 16 figs 1, 2.