Curl-crested Jay

Curl-crested Jay / Cyanocorax cristatellus

Curl-crested Jay

Here the details of the Curl-crested Jay named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cyanocorax cristatellus
Protonym:  Corvus cristatellus Pl.Col. livr.33 pl.193
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae /
Taxonomy Code:  cucjay1
Type Locality:  Bresil.
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Publish Year:  1823
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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.

cristatellus
Mod. L. cristatella  little crested  < dim. L. cristatus  crested, plumed  < crista  crest, plume.
● "50. GRACULA.   ...   cristatella.  4. G. nigra, remigibus primoribus basi rectricibusque apice albis, rostro flavo.  Sturnus chinensis niger. Edw. av. 19. t. 19.  Habitat in China." (Linnaeus 1758) (Acridotheres).