White-winged Magpie / Urocissa whiteheadi
White-winged Magpie
SCI Name:
Protonym: Urocissa whiteheadi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 10 p.18
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Urocissa
Taxonomy Code: whwmag1
Type Locality: Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan.
Author: Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year: 1899
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
UROCISSA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Red-billed Blue Magpie U. erythrorhyncha) Gr. ουρα oura tail; genus Cissa Boie, 1826, magpie; "Gen. UROCISSA nov. gen. *) Schweif-Kitta. Callocitta Gray pt. 487. 1. U. sinensis Nob. — Cuculus sinensis Lin. Corvus erythrorhynchus Gm. Syst. No. 34. — Caracias melanocephala Lath. — Psilorhinus sinensis Blyth. ... 488. 2. U. flavirostris Nob. — Psilorhinus flavirostris Blyth. Jour. As. Soc. Bengal. Vol. XV. (1846) pag. 28. No. 5. ... *) Gray stellte den Typus der Gattung, den Cuculus sinensis Lin. zu seiner Gattung Callocitta und vereinigte später diese Gattung mit Psilorhinus Rüpp. Typus der Gattung Callicitta ist Bullocki (Wagl) und ist dieselbe nahe verwandt mit Psilorhinus, indem beide zu den Garrulinen gehören. Urocissa gehört indess keineswegs in die Familie der Corvidae, sondern steht sicherlich in naher Verwandtschaft mit Cissa, wie von uns schon früher angedeutet worden ist. Ausser den beiden aufgeführten unterscheidet Blyth noch 3 Arten oder Abarten: 1. U. occipitalis. — Psilorh. occipitalis Blyth. von Nepal. 2. U. magnirostris. — Psilorh. magnirostris Blyth. von Arracan ... 3. U. albicapillus. — Psil. albicap. Blyth. von Simla" (Cabanis 1853); "Urocissa Cabanis 1850 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1, p. 87. Type, Corvus erythrorhynchus Boddaert.1 ... 1 Cabanis listed two species, Cuculus sinensis Linnaeus and Psilorhinus flavirostris Blyth, and the type was subsequently designated as Cuculus sinensis by Gray (1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 63). However, according to Hartert (1921, Vög. pal. Fauna, p. 2027), Cuculus sinensis of Linnaeus is not identifiable and the correct type of Urocissa is "sinensis of authors" [= Corvus erythrorhynchus Boddaert]." (Vaurie in Peters 1962, XV, 240).
Synon. Biophorus, Cissopica.
whiteheadi
● John Whitehead (1860-1899) British explorer, collector in Borneo 1885-1888, the Philippines 1893-1896, and Hainan 1899 (Aerodramus, Calyptomena, syn. Dicaeum haematostictum, subsp. Dicrurus leucophaeus (ex Buchanga palawanensis Whitehead, 1890), Harpactes, syn. Leptocoma sperata henkei, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Nisaetus nipalensis, syn. Pachycephala grisola plateni, subsp. Prioniturus discurus, Sitta, syn. Strix seloputo wiepkeni, syn. Trichastoma bicolor, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus, Urocissa, Urosphena, subsp. Zosterops montanus, Zosterornis).
● Maj. Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead (1880-1915) British Army in India, collector (syn. Zoothera mollissima).
SUBSPECIES
White-winged Magpie (Black-tailed)
SCI Name: Urocissa whiteheadi xanthomelana
xanthomelana
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; μελας melas, μελανος melanos black.
White-winged Magpie (Gray-tailed)
SCI Name: Urocissa whiteheadi whiteheadi
whiteheadi
● John Whitehead (1860-1899) British explorer, collector in Borneo 1885-1888, the Philippines 1893-1896, and Hainan 1899 (Aerodramus, Calyptomena, syn. Dicaeum haematostictum, subsp. Dicrurus leucophaeus (ex Buchanga palawanensis Whitehead, 1890), Harpactes, syn. Leptocoma sperata henkei, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Nisaetus nipalensis, syn. Pachycephala grisola plateni, subsp. Prioniturus discurus, Sitta, syn. Strix seloputo wiepkeni, syn. Trichastoma bicolor, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus, Urocissa, Urosphena, subsp. Zosterops montanus, Zosterornis).
● Maj. Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead (1880-1915) British Army in India, collector (syn. Zoothera mollissima).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)