Purplish-backed Jay

Purplish-backed Jay / Cyanocorax beecheii

Purplish-backed Jay

Here the details of the Purplish-backed Jay named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cyanocorax beecheii
Protonym:  Pica Beecheii Zool.J. 4 p.353
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae /
Taxonomy Code:  pubjay1
Type Locality:  Montereale [= Mazatlan, Sinaloa or San Bias, Nayarit, Mexico].
Author:  
Publish Year:  1829
IUCN Status:  

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.

beecheii / beecheyi / beecheyii / beechii
Rear-Adm. Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) British geographer, explorer in the Pacific 1825-1828, President of the Royal Geographical Society 1855-1856 (syn. Catamenia inornata, Cyanocorax).