Purplish Jay

SCI Name:  Cyanocorax cyanomelas
Protonym:  Pica cyanomelas Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 26 p.127
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanocorax
Taxonomy Code:  purjay1
Type Locality:  Paraguay; based on Azara no. 54, ''Urraca morada''.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYANOCORAX
(Corvidae; Ϯ Plush-crested Jay C. chrysops) Gr. κυανος kuanos   dark-blue; κοραξ korax, κορακος korakos  raven, crow  < κρωζω krōzō  to croak; "XIX. Fam. Garrulidae.  ...  Cyanocorax: Corvus pileatus  col. 57. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Cyanocorax Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 19, part 10, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Corvus pileatus Temminck = Pica chrysops Vieillot." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 220) (see Cyanocitta).
Synon. Argurocitta, Calocitta, Cissilopha, Coronideus, Cyanocorvus, Cyanurus, Henocitta, Protocitta, Psilorhinus, Uroleuca, Xanthocitta, Xanthoura.

cyanomelaena / cyanomelana / cyanomelas
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; μελας melas, μελανος melanos, μελαινα melaina  dark, black.
● ex “Urraca morada” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 54 (Cyanocorax).
● ex “Fringilla caerulea, mento, gula, etc. nigris” of Koelreuter 1767 (syn. Dacnis cayana).
● ex “Promérops Namaquois” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 5 (Rhinopomastus).
● ex “Gobe Mouches Mantelé” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 151 (Trochocercus).
● ex “Black and Blue Hummingbird” of Bancroft 1769, and “Crimson-headed Blue Humming-bird” of Latham 1782 (unident.).