Black Butcherbird

SCI Name:  Cracticus quoyi
Protonym:  Barita Quoyi Bull.Sci.Nat.[Ferussac] 10 p.289
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Artamidae / Cracticus
Taxonomy Code:  blabut1
Type Locality:  Dorey [= Dorei = Manokwari, Vogelkop], northwestern New Guinea.
Author:  Lesson & Garnot
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CRACTICUS
(Artamidae; Ϯ Hooded Butcherbird C. cassicus) Gr. κρακτικος kraktikos  noisy, clamorous; "CRACTICIDAE  ...  MEMBERS OF THIS FAMILY are among the best known of Australian birds. They are  ...  usually bold and at times aggressive, have loud characteristic voices, sometimes harsh but often also tuneful." (Macdonald 1973); "99. CASSICAN, Cracticus.  Paradisea, Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec droit et glabre à la base, alongé, fléchi à la pointe; mandibules échancrées vers le bout; la supérieure prolongée et arrondie dans les plumes du front.   Esp. Cassican. — Calybé, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Cracticus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 37. Type, by monotypy, Cassican — Calybé Buffon = Ramphastos cassicus Boddaert." (Amadon in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 166).
Var. Cradicus.
Synon. Barita, Bulestes.

quoyi / quoyii
Jean René-Constant Quoy (1790-1869) French naturalist, collector, explorer in the Pacific 1826-1829 (syn. Eopsaltria griseogularis (ex Muscicapa gularis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830), syn. Haematopus ater, subsp. Megapodius freycinet, Melloria, syn. Petroica goodenovii).

SUBSPECIES

Black Butcherbird (quoyi)
SCI Name: Cracticus quoyi quoyi
quoyi / quoyii
Jean René-Constant Quoy (1790-1869) French naturalist, collector, explorer in the Pacific 1826-1829 (syn. Eopsaltria griseogularis (ex Muscicapa gularis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830), syn. Haematopus ater, subsp. Megapodius freycinet, Melloria, syn. Petroica goodenovii).

Black Butcherbird (spaldingi)
SCI Name: Cracticus quoyi spaldingi
spaldingi / spaldingii
Edward Spalding (1836-1900) Australian taxidermist, collector (subsp. Melloria quoyi, Orthonyx).

Black Butcherbird (alecto)
SCI Name: Cracticus quoyi alecto
alecto
Gr. myth. Alecto or Allecto, one of the three Furies, Erinyes or Eumenides, usually represented clad in black, her head wreathed with serpents, and breathing pestilence, war and vengeance.  Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone were the spirits of vengeance who dwelt in hell, avenging crimes and tormenting criminals. Nemesis was sometimes included in their number (syn. Bubalornis albirostris, subsp. Melloria quoyi, Myiagra, syn. Probosciger aterrimus goliath).

Black Butcherbird (jardini)
SCI Name: Cracticus quoyi jardini
jardinei / jardineii / jardini / jardinii
● “Amongst the Raptorial specimens which were acquired for the Norwich Museum at the recent sale of the collection of the late Sir William Jardine is a Hawk ...I propose to call [it] ...in commemoration of the collection from which it passed into that of the Norwich Museum” (Gurney 1887) (syn. Accipiter poliogaster).
● Sir William Jardine, Bt. (1800-1874) Scottish ornithologist (Boissonneaua, syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus bifasciatus ("jardinei"), syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus microrhynchus ("jardinii"), syn. Circus assimilis (ex “Circus affinis Jardine & Selby” = Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828), syn. Edolisoma tenuirostre (ex Graucalus tenuirostris Jardine, 1831), Glaucidium, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Leuconotopicus villosus, syn. Melanodryas cucullata, syn. Sarothrura affinis, syn. Spodiornis rusticus, syn. Tityra inquisitor, Turdoides, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Jardine Creek, Cape York, Queensland, Australia (syn. Lichmera cockerelli, subsp. Melloria quoyi).

Black Butcherbird (rufescens)
SCI Name: Cracticus quoyi rufescens
rufescens
L. rufescens, rufescentis  reddish  < rufescere  to become reddish  < rufus  red.
● ex “Aigrette rousse de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 902, “Aigrette rousse” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Reddish Egret” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (Egretta).
● ex “Gobe-mouche roux de Cayenne” (= ♀) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 453, fig. 1, and de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Pachyramphus rufus).
● ex “Red-backed Pelican” of Latham 1785 (Pelecanus).
● ex Tringa fulicaria Linnaeus, 1758, and “Phalarope roussâtre” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Phalaropus fulicarius).
● ex “Ynambú guazú” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 326 (Rhynchotus).
● ex “Crombec” or “Figuier à Bec Courbi” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 135 (Sylvietta).