Turquoise Jay

SCI Name:  Cyanolyca turcosa
Protonym:  Cyanocitta turcosa Compt.Rend. 37 p.830
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanolyca
Taxonomy Code:  turjay1
Type Locality:  'Colombie'' [= near Puerres, Narino, Colombia; designated by de Schauensee (1951, Caldasia, 5, no. 25, p. 884)].
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1853
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYANOLYCA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Black-collared Jay C. armillata) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; λυκος lukos  type of crow, perhaps the Jackdaw, mentioned by Aristotle and Hesychius.; "Gen. Cyanolyca nov. gen. *)  Dohlenheher.  Cyanocitta Bonap. nec Strickl.   1031.  1. C. armillata Nob. — Cyanocorax armillatus Gray Gen. B. No. 21. tab. 74.   Cyanurus nigritorques Lafr.?  ...       1032.  2.  C. ornata Nob. —  Pica ornata Less. Rev. Zool. 1839. p. 41. — Cyanocorax ornata Gray Gen. B. No. 19. — Corvus cyanicollis Licht. Bonap. Consp. p. 379. No. 13.    ...   *) Von κυανεος, blau und λίκος [sic], Dohle. — Die Gruppe weicht von den vorhergehenden [Dolometis] durch stärkern Schnabel, bürstenartige Stirnfedern u.s.w. ab, und nähert sich den folgenden Gruppen [Xanthocitta].  Hierher ferner: 1. Cyanolyca viridicyana. — Garrulus viridicyanus Orb. Lafr.  —  2. C. Beachii — Garrulus Beachii Vig.  —  3. C. melanocyanea. — Garrulus melanocyaneus Hartl." (Cabanis 1853); "Cyanolyca Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1, p. 223. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 62), Cyanocorax armillatus Gray." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 216).

turcosa / turcosus
Mod. L. turcosus  turquoise-blue  < French turquoise  turquoise  < Old French turkeis  Turkish.