Brown-headed Crow

SCI Name:  Corvus fuscicapillus
Protonym:  Corvus fuscicapillus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(27)2 p.157
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Corvus
Taxonomy Code:  brhcro1
Type Locality:  'Dorey, New Guinea;'' error for Aru Islands (see Wallace, 1863, Ibis, p. 100).
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

CORVUS
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Raven C. corax) L. corvus  raven. In fable the Raven was originally white but, despite its supposed gift of prophecy, was turned into a black bird for its treachery. The Common or Northern Raven is the largest species of passerine bird; "48. CORVUS.  Rostrum convexum, cultratum, basi pennis setaceis tectum.  Lingua cartilaginea bifida." (Linnaeus 1758); "Corvus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 105. Type, by tautonymy, "Corvus", i.e. Corvus corax Linnaeus." (Blake & Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 261).  This is the ninth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy.  Linnaeus's Corvus comprised twelve species (C. Corax, C. Corone, C. frugilegus, C. Cornix, C. Monedula, C. benghalensis, C. glandarius, C. cristatus, C. Caryocatactes, C. Pica, C. paradisi, C. infaustus).     
Var. Cervus, Coruus.   
Synon. Amblycorax, Anomalocorax, Archicorax, Coloeus, Corax, Corone, Corvultur, Frugilegus, Gymnocorax, Gymnocorvus, Heterocorax, Macrocorax, Microcorax, Monedula, Nesocorax, Palaeocorax, Physocorax, Pterocorax, Rhinocorax, Sitocorax, Trypanocorax.

corvus
L. corvus raven.
● From a local name Caa Maa crow gull, for the Black-legged Kittiwake in the Shetlands (syn. Rissa tridactyla).

fuscicapilla / fuscicapillum / fuscicapillus
L. fuscus  dusky, brown; -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.

SUBSPECIES

Brown-headed Crow (megarhynchus)
SCI Name: Corvus fuscicapillus megarhynchus
megarhyncha / megarhynchos / megarhynchus
Gr. μεγα mega  much  < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great, long; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

Brown-headed Crow (fuscicapillus)
SCI Name: Corvus fuscicapillus fuscicapillus
fuscicapilla / fuscicapillum / fuscicapillus
L. fuscus  dusky, brown; -capillus  -capped  < capillus  hair of the head.