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<blockquote data-quote="James Jobling" data-source="post: 3617875" data-attributes="member: 106805"><p>As ever von Spix 1824, gave no immediate reasoning behind his choices of specific name for the parrot <em><strong>Aratinga caixana</strong></em> ( = subsp. <em><strong>Eupsittula cactorum</strong></em>) and the cuckoo <em><strong>Macropus caixana</strong></em> (= syn. <em><strong>Coccycua minuta</strong></em>), found at opposite ends of Brazil. The cuckoo is described from the Rio Tonantins, Amazonas, n.w. Brazil, the parrot (by inference from its associated species <em><strong>Aratinga flaviventer</strong></em> (= syn. <em><strong>Eupsittula cactorum</strong></em>)) in Maranhão, Ceará and Piauí, n.e. Brazil. I think Laurent is correct in associating the cuckoo with the indigenous Amazonian peoples, the Caixana (mirroring <em><strong>jumana</strong></em>). However, since the Caixana do not live in eastern Brazil, I believe the parrot name must, by default and following Hellmayr 1929, be associated with Caxias - altho' I am much tempted by Björn's Rio da Caixa! I do not think von Spix would have succumbed to the cage-bird and feathered ornaments theories, but am currently working on the correct way to express these varied suggestions in the <strong>Key </strong>entry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jobling, post: 3617875, member: 106805"] As ever von Spix 1824, gave no immediate reasoning behind his choices of specific name for the parrot [I][B]Aratinga caixana[/B][/I] ( = subsp. [I][B]Eupsittula cactorum[/B][/I]) and the cuckoo [I][B]Macropus caixana[/B][/I] (= syn. [I][B]Coccycua minuta[/B][/I]), found at opposite ends of Brazil. The cuckoo is described from the Rio Tonantins, Amazonas, n.w. Brazil, the parrot (by inference from its associated species [I][B]Aratinga flaviventer[/B][/I] (= syn. [I][B]Eupsittula cactorum[/B][/I])) in Maranhão, Ceará and Piauí, n.e. Brazil. I think Laurent is correct in associating the cuckoo with the indigenous Amazonian peoples, the Caixana (mirroring [I][B]jumana[/B][/I]). However, since the Caixana do not live in eastern Brazil, I believe the parrot name must, by default and following Hellmayr 1929, be associated with Caxias - altho' I am much tempted by Björn's Rio da Caixa! I do not think von Spix would have succumbed to the cage-bird and feathered ornaments theories, but am currently working on the correct way to express these varied suggestions in the [B]Key [/B]entry. [/QUOTE]
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