Cissopis Leverianus Bird

English Name:  Magpie Tanager
Latin Name:  Cissopis leverianus
Protonym:  Lanius leverianus Syst.Nat. 1 pt1 p.302
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Cissopis
Taxonomy Code:  magtan2
Type Locality:  no locality; Cayenne suggested by Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 24.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1788
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISSOPIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Magpie Tanager C. leveriana) Gr. κισσα kissa  magpie; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  countenance, appearance; alluding to the black and white plumage and very long tail of the Magpie Tanager; "PILLURION, Cissopis.  Lanius, Lath.  Bec court, robuste, bombé, un peu comprimé vers le bout; mandibule supérieure échancrée et courbée à la pointe. — Bouche ciliée. — Les troisième et quatriéme remiges les plus longues.   Esp. Lanius leverianus, picatus, Lath.   ...   Cissopis [κισσα, pica,  ωψ, vultus]." (Vieillot 1816); "Cissopis Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 40. Type, by monotypy, Lanius leverianus Gmelin." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 251).
Var. Cissopus, Cisssopis.
Synon. Bethylus, Brachyrhamphus.

leveriana / leverianus
Sir Ashton Lever (1729-1788) English naturalist, collector, founder of Leverian Mus. 1760 (syn. Buteo jamaicensis borealis (ex “Leverian Falcon” of Pennant 1785 (= ☼)), Cissopis (ex “Magpie Shrike” of Latham 1781), syn. Trogon viridis, unident. Psittacidae (ex “Crimson-vented Parrot” of Latham 1781).

SUBSPECIES

Magpie Tanager (leverianus)
Latin Name: Cissopis leverianus leverianus
leveriana / leverianus
Sir Ashton Lever (1729-1788) English naturalist, collector, founder of Leverian Mus. 1760 (syn. Buteo jamaicensis borealis (ex “Leverian Falcon” of Pennant 1785 (= ☼)), Cissopis (ex “Magpie Shrike” of Latham 1781), syn. Trogon viridis, unident. Psittacidae (ex “Crimson-vented Parrot” of Latham 1781).

Magpie Tanager (major)
Latin Name: Cissopis leverianus major
major
L. maior, maioris  greater, larger  < comp. magnus  great, large, powerful.
● ex “Poule d’eau de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 352; “Even if [Statius Müller, 1776] ...should some day be repudiated by ornithologists on account of his carelessness and his apparent colour-blindness, then the proper name of the species would be Aramides major (Boddaert), founded on Daubenton’s plate” (Sharpe 1894) (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Grand Corbeau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 51 (unident.;?Corvus sp.).
● ex “Crotophagus major” of Brisson 1760, “Grand bout de Petun” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 102, fig. 1, “Ani des palétuviers” of Salerne 1767, and “Greater Ani” of Latham 1781 (Crotophaga).
● 54. PICUS.  ...  major.  10. P. albo nigroque varius, ano occipiteque rubro.  Picus albo nigroque varius, rectricibus tribus lateralibus utrinque albescentibus. Fn. svec. 81.  Picus varius major. Ges. av. 708. Aldr. ornith. l. 12. c. 32. Will. orn. 94. t. 21. Raj. av. 43. Alb. av. I. p. 19. t. 19. Frisch. av. . . t. 36. f. 1.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dendrocopos).
● ex “Grande Egrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925 (syn. Egretta garzetta).
● ex “Scolopax media” of Frisch 1733-1763, “Great Snipe” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinago media).
● ex “Grand Indicateur, mâle” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 241, fig. 1 (syn. Indicator indicator).
● ex “Pie-grièche Blanchot” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 285 (syn. Malaconotus blanchoti).
● ex “An other sort of Loggerhead” of Sloane 1707-1725, “Sitta” or “Picus cinereus major, rostro curvo” of Ray 1713, “Grand Sittelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Great Nuthatch” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Myiarchus validus).
● ex “Parus major” of Gessner 1555, Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Fringillago”, “Great Titmouse” or “Ox Eye” of Ray 1713, and Albin 1731, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, nucha luteis” of Linnaeus 1746 (Parus).
● ex “Grèbe de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 404, fig. 1, and “Grand Grèbe” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Podiceps).
● ex “Barbican des côtes de Barbarie” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 602 (syn. Pogonornis dubius).
● ex “Grande Quiscale” of Vieillot 1819 (Quiscalus).
● ex “Tangara des grands bois de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 205 (syn. Saltator maximus).
● ex “Batara mayor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 211 (Taraba).
● ex “Macucagua” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, “Perdix brasiliensis” of Brisson 1760, and “Magoua” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Tinamus).
● ex “Trepadore grande” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 241 (Xiphocolaptes).