Slender-billed Grackle

SCI Name:  Quiscalus palustris
Protonym:  Scaphidurus palustris Philos.Mag.n.s. n.s., 1 p.437
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Quiscalus
Taxonomy Code:  slbgra1
Type Locality:  marshes and borders of lakes around [City of] Mexico; error, marshes at headwaters of Rio Lerma, Mexico, suggested by R. W. Dickerman, 1965, Auk, 82, p. 270.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Extinct

DEFINITIONS

QUISCALUS
(Icteridae; Ϯ Common Grackle Q. quiscula) Specific name Gracula quiscula Linnaeus, 1758; "98. QUISCALE, Quiscalus.  Gracula, Corvus, Lin. Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre et comprimé à la base, droit, entier, à bords anguleux et fléchis en dedans, incliné vers le bout; mandibule supérieure prolongée en pointe dans les plumes du front.   Esp. Gracula quiscala et Corvus mexicanus, Lin. Gm. Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Quiscalus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 36. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List. Genera Birds, ed. 1, p. 41), Gr.[acula] quiscala [= quiscula] Linnaeus." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 187).
Var. Quiscalis, Quisculus, Quisqualus, Quisqualis, Qviscalus.
Synon. Cassidix, Chalcophanes, Holoquiscalus, Megaquiscalus, Quiscala, Scaphidurus, Scaphura.

paluster / palustrae / palustre / palustris
L. paluster, palustris  marshy  < palus, paludis  swamp, marsh.
● ex “Parus palustris” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Marsh-Titmouse” or “Black-Cap” of Ray 1713, “Black Cap” of Albin 1738, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, dorso cinereo” of Linnaeus 1746 (Poecile).
● ex “Tordo guirahuró” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 64 (syn. Pseudoleistes guirahuro).
● ex “Hirondelle de Marais” or “Brunette” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 246, fig. 2 (syn. Riparia paludicola).