cassican

From Latin cassis (“helmet”).

cassican (plural cassicans)

1. An American bird (Psarocolius decumanus, syn. Cassicus cristatus), allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest.

   Synonyms: crested oropendola, cornbird

2. A piping crow.
   1. Corvus typicus of Indonesia and Australia.
   2. Cracticus tibicen (syn. Gymnorhina tibicen), Australian magpie.

      Synonym: piping crow-shrike

• Cracticus cassicus (hooded butcherbird)

• “cassican”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cassican”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ka.si.kɑ̃/

cassican m (plural cassicans)

1. butcherbird (in the genus Cracticus)

• cassican flûteur