Stout-billed Cuckooshrike

Stout-billed Cuckooshrike / Coracina caeruleogrisea

Stout-billed Cuckooshrike

Here the details of the Stout-billed Cuckooshrike named bird below:

SCI Name:  Coracina caeruleogrisea
Protonym:  Campephaga caeruleogrisea Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt26 no.358 p.179
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Campephagidae /
Taxonomy Code:  stbcus1
Type Locality:  Aru Islands.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1858
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CORACINA
(Campephagidae; White-bellied Cuckooshrike C. papuensis) Gr. κορακινος korakinos  little raven  < dim. κοραξ korax, κορακος korakos  raven  <  κρωζω krōzō  to croak; "102. CORACINE, Coracina.  Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre, ou emplumé, ou cilié à la base, épais, rétréci à la pointe, déprimé, anguleux en dessus, courbé vers le bout, entier ou échancré; mandibule inférieure un peu aplatie en dessous.  4 sections.   Esp. Col-nud. — Choucari. — Choucas chauve, Buff.  Céphaloptère, Geoffroy, Annales du muséum." (Vieillot 1816); "Gen. CORACINA Vieill. 1816. *) Raupendohle.   Graucalus Cuv. 1817. — Coronis Glog. 1827.   ...   *) Als Vieillot die Gattung Caracina [sic] begründete, waren von den 4 Typen derselben bereits 3 für andre Gattungen (Gymnoderus, Gymnocephalus [= Perissocephalus] und Cephalopterus Geoffr) vergeben und haben diese die Priorität.  Es bleibt daher für die Gattung Coracina als Typus nur der Choucari (Corvus papuensis), welcher zugleich Typus der späteren Gattung Graucalus Cuv. ist." (Cabanis 1853); "Coracina Vieillot, 1816 (April), Analyse, p. 37.  Type, by subsequent designation, "Choucari" of Buffon = Corvus papuensis Gmelin (Cabanis, 1851, Mus. Hein., Th. 1, [1850-51][= 1853], p. 62)." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 168) (see Graucalus and Ceblepyris).
Var. Caracina, Carocina, Corvina.
Synon. Artamides, Coronis, Gazzola, Graucalus, Kinkus, Paragraucalus, Pteropodocys, Ptiladela, Volvocivora.
(Cotingidae; syn. Cephalopterus  Ornate Umbrellabird C. ornatus) (see above).
(Cotingidae; syn. Gymnoderus Bare-necked Fruitcrow G. foetidus) (see above).
• (Cotingidae; syn. Perissocephalus † Capuchinbird P. tricolor) (see above).
• (Cotingidae; syn. Pyroderus  Red-ruffed Fruitcrow P. scutatus) "SUBFAM. CORACINÆ. Fruit Crows.  ...  South America only.   CORACINA, Vieillot. (fig. 237. a, b)  Front and base of the bill protected by short thick-set feathers.   C. scutata.  Pl. Col. 40." (Swainson 1837); "Coracina "Vieillot" Swainson, 1837, Nat. Hist. Classification Birds, II, p. 267 (not of Vieillot, 1816).  Type, by monotypy, C. scutata, i.e. Coracias scutata Shaw, 1792." (JAJ 2021).

coracina / coracinus
L. coracinus  raven-black  < Gr. κορακινος korakinos  raven-black  < κοραξ korax, κορακος korakos  raven  < κρωζω krōzō  to croak.
● ex “Grivert de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 616 (syn. Saltator maximus).

caeruleogrisea / caeruleogriseus
Mod. L. caeruleogriseus  sky-grey  < L. caeruleus  azure-blue; Med. L. griseum  grey.

SUBSPECIES

Stout-billed Cuckooshrike (strenua)
SCI Name: Coracina caeruleogrisea strenua
strenua
L. strenuus  restless, brisk.

Stout-billed Cuckooshrike (caeruleogrisea)
SCI Name: Coracina caeruleogrisea caeruleogrisea
caeruleogrisea / caeruleogriseus
Mod. L. caeruleogriseus  sky-grey  < L. caeruleus  azure-blue; Med. L. griseum  grey.

Stout-billed Cuckooshrike (adamsoni)
SCI Name: Coracina caeruleogrisea adamsoni
adamsoni
● Lt. Charles Thomas Johnston Adamson (1901-1978) Royal Australian Navy 1939-1945, policeman and patrol officer in Papua 1935-1939, plantation owner 1945-1964 (subsp. Coracina caeruleogrisea).
● Arthur Marshall Adamson (fl. 1950) British civil engineer, hydrologist in Egypt (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Prinia gracilis deltae).