Black-throated Magpie-Jay

Here the details of the Black-throated Magpie-Jay named bird below:

SCI Name:  Calocitta colliei
Protonym:  Pica colliei Zool.J. 4 p.353 pl.12
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Calocitta
Taxonomy Code:  btmjay
Type Locality:  San Bias, Nayarit, Mexico.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1829
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Calocitta
(Corvidae; syn. Cyanocorax Ϯ White-throated Magpie Jay C. formosus) Gr. καλος kalos  beautiful; κιττα kitta  magpie; "Pica formosa. Cinereous gray, beneath white; crown and pectoral band black; head with a long crest of black recurved feathers" (Swainson 1827); "CALOCITTA, G. R. Gray (1841).  Cyanurus, (Swains.) Bonap. (1838).  Corvus, Licht.  Pica, Wagl.  Garrulus, Gray.   C. Bullockii, (Wagl.) G. R. Gray.  P. gubernatrix, Temm. Pl. col. 436.  P. formosa, Swains.  G. Burnettii, Gray.  P. Colliei, Vigors.  G. ultramarinus, (Bonap.) Audub." (G. Gray 1841); "Calocitta Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 50. Type, by original designation, Pica bullockii Wagler = Pica formosa Swainson." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 228).
Var. Callicitta, Callocitta.
● (syn. Garrulus Ϯ Lidth's Jay G. lidthi).

colliei
Dr Alexander Collie (1793-1835) Scottish surgeon-naturalist on Beechey’s expedition to the Pacific 1825-1828, explorer, pioneer settler/administrator in Australia 1829-1835 (Cyanocorax).