Brown-headed Crow
Brown-headed Crow
Here the details of the Brown-headed Crow named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Corvus fuscicapillus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(27)2 p.157
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Corvus
Taxonomy Code: brhcro1
Type Locality: 'Dorey, New Guinea;'' error for Aru Islands (see Wallace, 1863, Ibis, p. 100).
Author: Gray, GR
Publish Year: 1859
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
CORVUS
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Raven C. corax) L. corvus raven. In fable the Raven was originally white but, despite its supposed gift of prophecy, was turned into a black bird for its treachery. The Common or Northern Raven is the largest species of passerine bird; "48. CORVUS. Rostrum convexum, cultratum, basi pennis setaceis tectum. Lingua cartilaginea bifida." (Linnaeus 1758); "Corvus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 105. Type, by tautonymy, "Corvus", i.e. Corvus corax Linnaeus." (Blake & Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 261). This is the ninth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy. Linnaeus's Corvus comprised twelve species (C. Corax, C. Corone, C. frugilegus, C. Cornix, C. Monedula, C. benghalensis, C. glandarius, C. cristatus, C. Caryocatactes, C. Pica, C. paradisi, C. infaustus).
Var. Cervus, Coruus.
Synon. Amblycorax, Anomalocorax, Archicorax, Coloeus, Corax, Corone, Corvultur, Frugilegus, Gymnocorax, Gymnocorvus, Heterocorax, Macrocorax, Microcorax, Monedula, Nesocorax, Palaeocorax, Physocorax, Pterocorax, Rhinocorax, Sitocorax, Trypanocorax.
corvus
L. corvus raven.
● From a local name Caa Maa crow gull, for the Black-legged Kittiwake in the Shetlands (syn. Rissa tridactyla).
fuscicapilla / fuscicapillum / fuscicapillus
L. fuscus dusky, brown; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
SUBSPECIES
Brown-headed Crow (megarhynchus)
SCI Name: Corvus fuscicapillus megarhynchus
megarhyncha / megarhynchos / megarhynchus
Gr. μεγα mega much < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē great, long; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill.
Brown-headed Crow (fuscicapillus)
SCI Name: Corvus fuscicapillus fuscicapillus
fuscicapilla / fuscicapillum / fuscicapillus
L. fuscus dusky, brown; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
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)