Black-billed Magpie

SCI Name:  Pica hudsonia
Protonym:  Corvus hudsonius Narr.Journ.PolarSea[Franklin] p.671
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Pica
Taxonomy Code:  bkbmag1
Type Locality:  Cumberland House, Hudson Bay [= Saskatchewan].
Author:  Sabine
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PICA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Eurasian Magpie P. pica) L. pica  magpie; "{Plumis basis rostri antrorsum incumbentibus, naresque tegentibus  {Rostro recto; apice deorsum inclinante:  {Rectricibus intermediis multo longioribus . . . . . Pica. Genus 15.   ...   **1. LA PIE.  Pica nigro-violacea; ventre & pennis scapularibus albis; imo dorso griseo; remigibus majoribus interius albis . . . . PICA" (Brisson 1760); based on "Pica" of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, and many other authors; "Pica Brisson, 1760, Orn., 1, p. 30. Type, by tautonymy, "Pica" = Pica pica, ibid., 2, p. 35 = Corvus pica Linnaeus." (Blake & Vaurie in Peters 1962, XV, 250). The bold and inquisitive Eurasian Magpie has been accused of decimating local passerine populations, especially in suburban environments.
Var. Rica.
Synon. Cleptes, Melanoleuca, Melanopica.

pica
L. pica  magpie.  In ornithology used also of birds which are pied black and white and, usually, long-tailed.
● ex "Alca minor" of Brisson 1760 and Strøm 1762, and "Mergus" of Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713 (syn. Alca torda).
● ex “Gobe-mouche pie de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 675, fig. 1, and “Gillit” or “Gobe-mouche pie de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Fluvicola).
● "SCOLOPAX PICA.  DIAGN. Corpus nigrum, Albo vero pectus, abdomen, uropygium, remiges secundæ, et dimidia pars caudæ.  ...  Statura S. Rusticolæ" (Scopoli 1769) (syn. Haematopus ostralegus).
● "48. CORVUS.  ...  Pica.  10. C. albo nigroque varius, cauda cuneiformi. Fn. svec. 76.  Pica varia s. caudata. Gesn. av. 695. Aldr. orn. l. 12. [c]. 12. Jonst. av. 44. t. 17. Will. ornith. 87. t. 19. Raj. av. 41. Alb. av. t. 1. p. 15. t. 15. Frisch. av. t. 58.  Habitat in Europa nido artificioso.  Degit ad pagos, inter hostes offensos sylvarum osor; legit quisquilias." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pica).

hudsonia / hudsonias / hudsonica / hudsonicus / hudsonis / hudsonius
Hudson Bay or Hudsons Bay, or Hudson Straits, Canada (named after Capt. Henry Hudson (d. 1611) English navigator and explorer, cast adrift there by his mutinous crew).
● ex “Hudsonian Wagtail” of Latham 1802 (syn. Anthus rubescens).
● ex “Ash-colour’d Heron from North America” of Edwards 1750, and “Héron de la Baye de Hudson” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Ardea herodias).
● ex “Turnstone from Hudson’s Bay” of Edwards 1750 (syn. Arenaria interpres).
● ex “Bittern from Hudson’s Bay” of Edwards 1750 (syn. Botaurus lentiginosus).
● ex “Ring-tailed Hawk” of Edwards 1750 (Circus).
● ex “Hudsonian Thrush” (= ☼) of Pennant 1785 (syn. Euphagus carolinus).
● ex “Hudsonian Godwit” of Latham 1787, and Pennant 1787 (syn. Limosa haemastica).
● ex “Eskimaux Curlew” of Pennant 1785, and “Hudsonian Curlew” of Latham 1787 (subsp. Numenius phaeopus).
● ex “Little Hawk Owl” of Edwards 1743, “Strix freti Hudsonis” of Brisson 1760, “Caparacoch” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Hawk Owl” of Latham 1781, and Pennant 1785 (syn. Surnia ulula caparoch).
● ex “Hudsonian White-headed Oriole” of Pennant 1785 (unident. partial albino).