Cyanocorax Chrysops Bird

English Name:  Plush-crested Jay
Latin Name:  Cyanocorax chrysops
Protonym:  Pica chrysops Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 26 p.124
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanocorax
Taxonomy Code:  plcjay1
Type Locality:  Paraguay; based on Azara, no. 53, ''Acahe''.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

chrysops
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face (cf. χρυσωψ khrusōps, χρυσωπος khrusōpos  gold-coloured, gold-shining).
● ex “Yellow-eared Flycatcher” of White, 1790 (Caligavis).
● ex “Acahé” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 53 (Cyanocorax).

SUBSPECIES

Plush-crested Jay (diesingii)
Latin Name: Cyanocorax chrysops diesingii
diesingii
Dr Karl Moriz Diesing (1800-1867) Austrian helminthologist (subsp. Cyanocorax chrysops).

Plush-crested Jay (chrysops)
Latin Name: Cyanocorax chrysops chrysops
chrysops
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face (cf. χρυσωψ khrusōps, χρυσωπος khrusōpos  gold-coloured, gold-shining).
● ex “Yellow-eared Flycatcher” of White, 1790 (Caligavis).
● ex “Acahé” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 53 (Cyanocorax).

Plush-crested Jay (tucumanus)
Latin Name: Cyanocorax chrysops tucumanus
tucumana / tucumanum / tucumanus
Tucumán Province, Argentina.