Hooded Butcherbird

SCI Name:  Cracticus cassicus
Protonym:  Ramphastos cassicus TablePlanchesEnlum. p.83
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Artamidae / Cracticus
Taxonomy Code:  hoobut1
Type Locality:  New Guinea; restricted to the Vogelkop by Mayr, 1941, List New Guinea Birds, p. 164.
Author:  Boddaert
Publish Year:  1783
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.

cassicus
French name “Cassican” < Cassique cacique, oriole; Toucan toucan; ex “Cassican de la Nouvelle Guinée” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Pied Roller” of Latham 1781 (Cracticus).

Cassicus
(Icteridae; syn. Cacicus † Red-rumped Cacique C. haemorrhous) French Cassique  oriole, cacique  < inferred L. cassicus  small metal helmet  < dim. cassis, cassidis  metal helmet (see Cacicus); "CASSICUS Cuv.  ...  Oriolus Galbula Coraciis annumerandus est, at Linnaei quidem characteres Orioli potius Icteris Brissonii, quam illi Galbulae convenire videntur, hinc nomen retinui. Cassicus a maxillae basi, cassidis seu galeae instar frontem tegente, vocatus est, hinc Cacicus falso scribitur" (Illiger 1811); "Cassicus Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Av., p. 214, 1811—emendation of Cacicus Lacépède." (Hellmayr, 1937, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. X, p. 24).

SUBSPECIES

Hooded Butcherbird (cassicus)
SCI Name: Cracticus cassicus cassicus
cassicus
French name “Cassican” < Cassique cacique, oriole; Toucan toucan; ex “Cassican de la Nouvelle Guinée” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Pied Roller” of Latham 1781 (Cracticus).

Hooded Butcherbird (hercules)
SCI Name: Cracticus cassicus hercules
hercules / herculis
● Gr. myth. Hercules or Heracles, the celebrated giant hero, later deified (Alcedo, subsp. Cracticus cassicus, ‡syn. Dinornis novaezealandiae).
● Ercole Conte Turati (1829-1881) Italian banker, naturalist, collector (syn. Pygoscelis adeliae).