Bornean Green-Magpie / Cissa jefferyi
WBN 
Bornean Green-Magpie
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cissa jefferyi Ibis (5) 6 (24) p. 383-384
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cissa
Taxonomy Code: borgrm1
Type Locality: Mt. Kinabalu, northern Borneo.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1888
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CISSA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Green Magpie C. chinensis) Gr. κισσα kissa magpie. The Greeks applied this name both to the jay and to the magpie, equally noisy and familiar. In Gr. myth. Cissa was one of the Pierides, who, having failed to best the Muses in a singing contest, was transformed into a chattering magpie; "XVIII. Fam. Melliphagidae Vigors. 2 ... 2 Unter der Benennung Cissa könnten ferner zur Gattung erhoben werden: Cor. sinensis Gm. und verwandte Arten." (Boie 1826); "Cissa Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Coracias sinensis Gmelin, 1788 = Coracias chinensis Boddaert, 1783. ... The name Kitta Temminck, 1826, in Temminck and Laugier, Pl. Col., 395, livr. 67 (= Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat., p. 150) has been used in error by some authors for this genus." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 242).
Synon. Chlorisoma, Corapica.
cissa
L. cissa magpie or jay < Gr. κισσα kissa magpie (i.e. pied black and white) (syn. Dendrocopos major).
jefferyi
Jeffrey Whitehead (d. 1909) English stockbroker, father of explorer John Whitehead (Aethopyga, Chlamydochaera, Cissa, Pithecophaga).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
