Indochinese Green-Magpie

SCI Name:  Cissa hypoleuca
Protonym:  Cissa hypoleuca AttiR.Accad.Sci.Torino 20 p.427
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cissa
Taxonomy Code:  yebmag1
Type Locality:  Thu Dan Mot, Cochinchma.
Author:  Salvadori & Giglioli
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISSA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Green Magpie C. chinensis) Gr. κισσα kissa  magpie. The Greeks applied this name both to the jay and to the magpie, equally noisy and familiar. In Gr. myth. Cissa was one of the Pierides, who, having failed to best the Muses in a singing contest, was transformed into a chattering magpie; "XVIII. Fam. Melliphagidae Vigors. ²  ...  ² Unter der Benennung Cissa könnten ferner zur Gattung erhoben werden: Cor. sinensis Gm. und verwandte Arten." (Boie 1826); "Cissa Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Coracias sinensis Gmelin, 1788 = Coracias chinensis Boddaert, 1783.  ...  The name Kitta Temminck, 1826, in Temminck and Laugier, Pl. Col., 395, livr. 67 (= Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat., p. 150) has been used in error by some authors for this genus." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 242). 
Synon. Chlorisoma, Corapica.

cissa
L. cissa  magpie or jay  < Gr. κισσα kissa  magpie (i.e. pied black and white) (syn. Dendrocopos major).

hypoleuca
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; λευκος leukos white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos whitish).
● ex “Pico triqueño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 123 (syn. Sporophila leucoptera).
● Gr. ὑπερλευκος huperleukos exceedingly white; “The name hypoleucus was evidently a lapsus for hyperleucus” (Gadow 1883) (Gymnorhina).

SUBSPECIES

Indochinese Green-Magpie (jini)
SCI Name: Cissa hypoleuca jini
jini
Dr Jin Kwok Jung (fl. 1930) of Sun Yat Sen University; no further details available (Delacour 1930) (subsp. Cissa hypoleuca).

Indochinese Green-Magpie (concolor)
SCI Name: Cissa hypoleuca concolor
concolor
L. concolor, concoloris  of the same colour, concolorous, similar  < cum (old form com)  together with; color, coloris  colour.

Indochinese Green-Magpie (chauleti)
SCI Name: Cissa hypoleuca chauleti
chauleti
“Named in honour of M. Chaulet, who procured us the specimen” (Delacour 1926) (subsp. Cissa hypoleuca).

Indochinese Green-Magpie (hypoleuca)
SCI Name: Cissa hypoleuca hypoleuca
hypoleuca
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; λευκος leukos white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos whitish).
● ex “Pico triqueño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 123 (syn. Sporophila leucoptera).
● Gr. ὑπερλευκος huperleukos exceedingly white; “The name hypoleucus was evidently a lapsus for hyperleucus” (Gadow 1883) (Gymnorhina).

Indochinese Green-Magpie (katsumatae)
SCI Name: Cissa hypoleuca katsumatae
katsumatae
Zensaku Katsumata (1874-1940) Japanese pharmacist, collector on Hainan (subsp. Cissa hypoleuca, Polyplectron).