Cyanocorax cristatellus (Temminck)

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 182

649. Cyanocorax cristatellus (Temminck)

Quaternary – MG

Dendrocalaptes [sic] [?; in part] – Lund 1841d: 18. Dendrocalaptes [sic] [?; in part] – Giebel 1846: 312. Dendrocalaptes [sic] [?; in part] – Giebel 1847: 17. Dendrocolaptes [?; in part] – Pictet 1853: 414.

Dendrocolaptes aff. gujanensi [in part] – Lund (in Winge 1887): 48.

Cyanocorax cyanoleucus – Winge 1887: 48.

Cyanocorax cyanoleucus – Goeldi 1894: 363.

Cyanocorax cyanoleucus – Lambrecht 1933: 783.

Cyanocorax cristatella – Brodkorb 1978: 161.

Cyanocorax cristatella [ Cyanocorax cyanoleucus ] – Mones 1986: 99.

Cyanocorax cristatellus – Cuello 1988: 69.

Cyanocorax cristatellus – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 496.

Winge (1887) reported remains from various sites. From Lapa da Escrivânia V, the proximal end of a scapula, the distal end of a humerus, and the first phalanx of the left hallux, which broke when the bird was alive and became slightly shorter after calcifying. From a “saltpeter cave near Escrivânia”, a tarsometatarsus. From “various caves” [26], a maxilla and the distal end of a tibiotarsus, which is well distinguished from that of Cacicus , Pyroderus , and Procnias . Finally, from a “cave near Sumidouro” (other than Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro), the proximal end of a humerus of a Cyanocorax with an uncertain determination (“ Dendrocolaptes aff. gujanensi ” in Lund’s catalog; perhaps the material Lund 1841d referred to as Dendrocalaptes [sic]). It is smaller than in Cyanocorax cristatellus and larger than and divergent from Cyanocorax cyanopogon , the two species Winge had available for comparison.

Hirundinidae Rafinesque

650. Hirundinidae indet. 1

Quaternary – MG

Hirundo sp. 1 vel 2 e parvis ( cyanoleuca , leucorrhoa ) – Winge 1887: 49.

“talvez seja indentica á Petrochelidon leucorrhoa ” – Goeldi 1894: 248.

Hirundo sp. [in part?] – Lambrecht 1933: 776.

Hirundinidae indet. – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 496.

Winge (1887) reported bones of several individuals from Lapa da Escrivânia V, a humerus from Lapa da Escrivânia XI, and bones from several individuals of recent age [28]. The total material is represented by the humerus, ulna, femur, and tibiotarsus, and perhaps represents two species. There are similarities with Pygochelidon cyanoleuca and Tachycineta leucorrhoa .

651. Hirundinidae indet. 2

Late Holocene – RS

Hirundinidae – Rosa 2006b: 232.

Rosa (2006b) reported two bones from level 1 of the Chácara do Leão (RS-LC-96) site in Palmares do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. The material is deposited in the IAP/Unisinos collection .