Tagula Butcherbird

SCI Name:  Cracticus louisiadensis
Protonym:  Cracticus louisiadensis Ibis p.555
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Artamidae / Cracticus
Taxonomy Code:  tagbut1
Type Locality:  Sudest Island.
Author:  Tristram
Publish Year:  1889
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

louisiadensis
Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.