Black-throated Magpie-Jay / Calocitta colliei
WBN 
Black-throated Magpie-Jay
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pica colliei Zool.J. 4 p.353 pl.12
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Calocitta
Taxonomy Code: btmjay
Type Locality: San Bias, Nayarit, Mexico.
Author: Vigors
Publish Year: 1829
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).
colliei
Dr Alexander Collie (1793-1835) Scottish surgeon-naturalist on Beechey’s expedition to the Pacific 1825-1828, explorer, pioneer settler/administrator in Australia 1829-1835 (Cyanocorax).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
