Red-tailed vanga

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Red-tailed vanga

| image = Red-tailed vanga (Calicalicus madagascariensis).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Calicalicus madagascariensis |volume=2016 |page=e.T22708012A94145814 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22708012A94145814.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Calicalicus

| species = madagascariensis

| authority = (Linnaeus, 1766)

| synonyms = Lanius madagascariensis {{small|Linnaeus, 1766}}

}}

The red-tailed vanga (Calicalicus madagascariensis) is a species of bird in the family Vangidae.

It is endemic to Madagascar.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the red-tailed vanga in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Madagascar. He used the French name La petite pie-griesche de Madagascar and the Latin Lanius Madagascariensis minor.{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés | volume=2 | language=fr, la | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | pages=164–166, Plate 16 figs 1, 2 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36011388 }} The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.{{cite journal |last=Allen | first=J.A. | author-link=Joel Asaph Allen | year=1910 | title=Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=28 | pages=317–335 | hdl=2246/678}} When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the red-tailed vanga. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Lanius madagascariensis and cited Brisson's work.{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1766 | title=Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=12th | volume=1, Part 1 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | place=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=la | page=137 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946333 }} The species is now placed in the genus Calicalicus that was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.{{ cite journal | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1854 | title=Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua | journal=Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences | volume=38 | pages=386, 535 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1216270 }} The species is monotypic.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Batises, woodshrikes, bushshrikes, vangas | work=World Bird List Version 8.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/batises/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=21 June 2018 }}