Florida Scrub-Jay

SCI Name:  Aphelocoma coerulescens
Protonym:  Corvus coerulescens Bull.Sci.Soc.Philom. 1(1791-1799) Vert.&Germ. p.87
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Aphelocoma
Taxonomy Code:  flsjay
Type Locality:  in Amer. septentrionale [= Florida].
Author:  Bosc
Publish Year:  1795
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

APHELOCOMA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Western Scrub Jay A. californica) Gr. αφελης aphelēs  smooth, sleek, simple  < negative prefix α- a- ; φελλευς phelleus  stony ground; κομη komē  hair; "Von Cyanocitta könnte, durch schwächeren Schnabel, durch den Mangel des Federschopfes und sonst noch abweichend, als eigene Gruppe gesondert werden:  Gen. Aphelocoma n. gen.  (von αφελης schlicht und κομη, η, Haupthaar.)  1. A. californica — Garrulus californicus Vig. Cyanocitta superciliosa Strickl.  —  2. A. Sieberi. — Pica Sieberi Wagl.; Garrulus sordidus Sws.   3. A. ultramarina. — Garrulus ultramarinus Bonap. —  4. A. floridana. — Corvus floridanus Bartram; Garrulus floridanus Bonap." (Cabanis 1853); "Aphelocoma Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1, sign. 28, p. 221. Type, by subsequent designation (Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, 1858, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac., 9, p. 584), Garrulus californicus Vigors." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 210).
Synon. Garrulina, Sieberocitta.

coerulescens
Unattested L. caerulescens, caerulescentis  bluish (neither caerulescere nor caerulescens have been found in Classical Latin, but their existence may be inferred from caeruleus  azure-blue, by the example, among others, of rufus  red, ruddy, giving rufescere  to become reddish, and rufescens, rufescentis  reddish). 
● ex “Petit Martin-pêcheur aigue-marin” of Temminck 1807 (Alcedo).
● ex “Garza Aplomada” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 347 (syn. Ardea cocoi).
● ex "Bengali gris-bleu" of Vieillot 1805 (Estrilda).
● ex "Aplomado" of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 22 (Geranospiza).
● ex "Curucáu aplomado" of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 363 (Harpiprion).
● ex “Habia de ceja blanca” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 81 (Saltator).