Tufted Jay / Cyanocorax dickeyi

Tufted Jay / Cyanocorax dickeyi

Tufted Jay

SCI Name:  Cyanocorax dickeyi
Protonym:  Cyanocorax dickeyi Auk 52 p.275
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tufjay1
Type Locality:  Rancho Batel, 5 miles NE. of Santa Lucia, Sinaloa, Mexico (altitude 5,200 ft.).
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Publish Year:  1935
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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.

dickeyi
Donald Ryder Dickey (1887-1932) US zoologist, collector, pioneer wildlife photographer and film-maker (‡Branta, subsp. Colinus leucopogon, Cyanocorax, subsp. Egretta rufescens, syn. Eumomota superciliosa apiaster, syn. Penelopina nigra, subsp. Phalaenoptilus nuttallii).