Unicolored Jay

SCI Name:  Aphelocoma unicolor
Protonym:  Cyanocorax unicolor Bull.Acad.R.Sci.Brux. 14 pt2 p.103
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Aphelocoma
Taxonomy Code:  unijay1
Type Locality:  le Mexique; locahty restricted by Brodkorb (1944, Auk, 61, p. 402) to San Cristobal [= Ciudad de Las Casas], Chiapas.
Author:  Du Bus
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

APHELOCOMA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Western Scrub Jay A. californica) Gr. αφελης aphelēs  smooth, sleek, simple  < negative prefix α- a- ; φελλευς phelleus  stony ground; κομη komē  hair; "Von Cyanocitta könnte, durch schwächeren Schnabel, durch den Mangel des Federschopfes und sonst noch abweichend, als eigene Gruppe gesondert werden:  Gen. Aphelocoma n. gen.  (von αφελης schlicht und κομη, η, Haupthaar.)  1. A. californica — Garrulus californicus Vig. Cyanocitta superciliosa Strickl.  —  2. A. Sieberi. — Pica Sieberi Wagl.; Garrulus sordidus Sws.   3. A. ultramarina. — Garrulus ultramarinus Bonap. —  4. A. floridana. — Corvus floridanus Bartram; Garrulus floridanus Bonap." (Cabanis 1853); "Aphelocoma Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1, sign. 28, p. 221. Type, by subsequent designation (Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, 1858, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac., 9, p. 584), Garrulus californicus Vigors." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 210).
Synon. Garrulina, Sieberocitta.

unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris  plain, uniform, of one colour  < uni-  single-  < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Unicolored Jay (concolor)
SCI Name: Aphelocoma unicolor concolor
concolor
L. concolor, concoloris  of the same colour, concolorous, similar  < cum (old form com)  together with; color, coloris  colour.

Unicolored Jay (guerrerensis)
SCI Name: Aphelocoma unicolor guerrerensis
guerrensis / guerrerensis
Guerrero, Mexico.

Unicolored Jay (oaxacae)
SCI Name: Aphelocoma unicolor oaxacae
oaxacae
Oaxaca, southern Mexico.

Unicolored Jay (unicolor)
SCI Name: Aphelocoma unicolor unicolor
unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris  plain, uniform, of one colour  < uni-  single-  < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).

Unicolored Jay (griscomi)
SCI Name: Aphelocoma unicolor griscomi
griscomi
Ludlow Griscom (1890-1959) US ornithologist, pioneer in field identification (subsp. Aphelocoma unicolor, subsp. Contopus sordidulus, subsp. Crax rubra, subsp. Glaucidium palmarum, syn. Granatellus sallaei boucardi, subsp. Haemorhous mexicanus, syn. Sporagra notata forreri, subsp. Sturnella magna).