Calocitta Formosa Bird

English Name:  White-throated Magpie-Jay
Latin Name:  Calocitta formosa
Protonym:  Pica formosa Philos.Mag.n.s. n.s., 1 p.437
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Calocitta
Taxonomy Code:  wtmjay1
Type Locality:  Temiscaltipec, Mexico.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1827
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).

formosa
L. formosus  beautiful  < forma  beauty.
● ex “Lovely Finch” of Latham 1787 (Amandava).
● ex “Lindo bello” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 96 (syn. Tangara chloroptera).

SUBSPECIES

White-throated Magpie-Jay (formosa)
Latin Name: Calocitta formosa formosa
formosa
L. formosus  beautiful  < forma  beauty.
● ex “Lovely Finch” of Latham 1787 (Amandava).
● ex “Lindo bello” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 96 (syn. Tangara chloroptera).

White-throated Magpie-Jay (azurea)
Latin Name: Calocitta formosa azurea
azurea
Med. L. azureus azure-coloured, azure-blue  < azura  lapis lazuli.
● ex “Gobe-mouche bleu des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 666, fig. 1, and “Petit Azur” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Hypothymis).
● ex “Azurou” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 158 (unident.).

White-throated Magpie-Jay (pompata)
Latin Name: Calocitta formosa pompata
pompata / pompatus
L. pompatus  splendid, magnificent, pompous  < pompare  to be ostentatious.