White-collared Jay

SCI Name:  Cyanolyca viridicyanus
Protonym:  Garrulus viridi-cyanus Mag.Zool. 8 cl.2 p.9
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanolyca
Taxonomy Code:  whcjay2
Type Locality:  Yungas, Bolivia [type specimen from ''La Paz].
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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).

viridicyana / viridicyaneus / viridicyanus
L. viridis  green  < virere  to be green; cyaneus  dark-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy.

SUBSPECIES

White-collared Jay (jolyaea)
SCI Name: Cyanolyca viridicyanus jolyaea
jolyaea
Prof. Nicolas Joly (1812-1885) French zoologist, anatomist (subsp. Cyanolyca viridicyanus).

White-collared Jay (cyanolaema)
SCI Name: Cyanolyca viridicyanus cyanolaema
cyanolaema
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; λαιμος laimos throat.

White-collared Jay (viridicyanus)
SCI Name: Cyanolyca viridicyanus viridicyanus
viridicyana / viridicyaneus / viridicyanus
L. viridis  green  < virere  to be green; cyaneus  dark-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy.