Cissa Jefferyi Bird

English Name:  Bornean Green-Magpie
Latin Name:  Cissa jefferyi
Protonym:  Cissa jefferyi Ibis (5) 6 (24) p. 383-384
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cissa
Taxonomy Code:  borgrm1
Type Locality:  Mt. Kinabalu, northern Borneo.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1888
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISSA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Green Magpie C. chinensis) Gr. κισσα kissa  magpie. The Greeks applied this name both to the jay and to the magpie, equally noisy and familiar. In Gr. myth. Cissa was one of the Pierides, who, having failed to best the Muses in a singing contest, was transformed into a chattering magpie; "XVIII. Fam. Melliphagidae Vigors. ²  ...  ² Unter der Benennung Cissa könnten ferner zur Gattung erhoben werden: Cor. sinensis Gm. und verwandte Arten." (Boie 1826); "Cissa Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Coracias sinensis Gmelin, 1788 = Coracias chinensis Boddaert, 1783.  ...  The name Kitta Temminck, 1826, in Temminck and Laugier, Pl. Col., 395, livr. 67 (= Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat., p. 150) has been used in error by some authors for this genus." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 242). 
Synon. Chlorisoma, Corapica.

cissa
L. cissa  magpie or jay  < Gr. κισσα kissa  magpie (i.e. pied black and white) (syn. Dendrocopos major).

jefferyi
Jeffrey Whitehead (d. 1909) English stockbroker, father of explorer John Whitehead (Aethopyga, Chlamydochaera, Cissa, Pithecophaga).