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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3611641" data-attributes="member: 24811">I cannot say for sure either, but would note that 'caixana' was in a Latin text, in a work authored by Spix alone and published in 1824; 'Cauixána' was in a German text, in a work co-authored and edited by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and published in 1831, five years after Spix's death. It's at the very least not clear that Spix himself ever wrote it Cauixána.Anyway, I have no real doubt that the people living in the forests along the Tonantin (= type locality of Spix's Macropus caixana), which were called the Cauixánas in the 1831 volume of Reise in Brasilien, were those who are called Caixanas elsewhere (and much more often) -- those who used to speak the language Kaixana = Cawishana = Kawishana = Kaishana.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I guess I could imagine a 20th C author doing this type of thing... But an early-19th C German author in a book entirely written in Latin -- I find this much harder to believe.(To my mind, he would never have mixed Portuguese with Latin, in a situation where a good Latin word existed to say the same thing. He would also most likely not have used this particular suffix, as it is usually almost exclusively associated to names of geographical places or persons. Thus, assuming he would have wanted to form an adjective with this meaning, something like 'capsalis' would have been immensely more likely than 'caixana'. But, anyway, I can't really believe either that he would ever have considered naming a bird on this type of 'feature'.)</blockquote>

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