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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3612161" data-attributes="member: 24811">The source for this hypothetical association of the epithet caixana to the locality of 'Caixas' = Caxias may be Hellmayr 1929 [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6732385" target="_blank">here</a>]:(This work also includes comments on Spix's original specimens; in English, this tlme, thus certainly easier to understand than the 1906 paper in German.)The hypothesis was put forward taking into account the conure only; Hellmayr did not comment on the fact that Spix had also used the same species name for a cuckoo that obviously did not originate from the same area.Neither did he note the grammatical treatment that, in both cases, suggests Spix did not regard this name as adjectival. (He himself treated Aratinga as feminine (e.g., <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6732385" target="_blank">"A. aurea"</a>), thus the feminine ending presumably did not surprise him.)</blockquote>