Kashmir Nutcracker

SCI Name:  Nucifraga multipunctata
Protonym:  Nucifraga multipunctata Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part XVII, Meeting of February 27, 1849 p. 23
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Nucifraga
Taxonomy Code:  sponut1
Type Locality:  India [= northwestern Himalayas]; restricted to Kashmir north of the Pir Panjal Range by Vaurie (1954, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1668, p. 13).
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1849
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

NUCIFRAGA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Northern Nutcracker N. caryocatactes) Late Med. L. nucifraga  a name given to the Northern Nutcracker by Turner 1544, as a translation of the German name Nussbrecher  nut-breaker  < L. nux, nucis  nut; frangere  to shatter; "{Plumis basis rostri antrorsum incumbentibus, naresque tegentibus  ...  {Rostro recto  ...  {Mandibula superiore longiore & obtusa . . . . . Nucifraga. Genus 17.   ...   **1. LE CASSE-NOIX.  ...  NUCIFRAGA  ...  Nucibus, Amygdalis, &c. victitat" (Brisson 1760); based on "Nucifraga" and "Caryocatactes" of Gessner 1555, Schwenckfeld 1603, and other authors, "Ossifragus" and "Coccothraustes" of Rzaczynski 1721, and "Nut-Cracker" of Edwards 1751; "Nucifraga Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 1, p. 30. Type, by tautonymy, "nucifraga," ibid., 2, p. 59 = Corvus caryocatactes Linnaeus." (Vaurie in Peters 1962, XV, 256).
Synon. Caryocatactes, Picicorvus.

nucifraga
Late Med. L. nucifraga a name given to the Spotted Nutcracker by Turner 1544, as a translation of the German name Nussbrecher  nut-breaker  < L. nux, nucis  nut; frangere  to shatter. Var. Nuciphraga.

multipunctata
L. multi-  many  < multus  much; Mod. L. punctatus  spotted  < L. punctum  spot  < pungere  to puncture.