Black-cowled Oriole / Icterus prosthemelas
WBN 
Black-cowled Oriole
SCI Name:
Protonym: Xanthornus prosthemelas Contrib.Orn.[Jardine] p.120 pl.62
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Icteridae / Icterus
Taxonomy Code: bkcori
Type Locality: Guatemala.
Author: Strickland
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ICTERUS
(Icteridae; Ϯ Venezuelan Troupial I. icterus) L. icterus Golden Oriole < Gr. ικτερος ikteros yellow bird, perhaps the Golden Oriole, the sight of which was supposed to cure jaundice; "Genus Icteri.(1) ... (1) Icterus, a colore luteo plurimarum hujus generis specierum ... Le genre du Troupiale.(1) ... (1) Troupiale, nom qu'on donne en Amérique à quelques especes de ce genre ... ICTERUS" (Brisson 1760): based on "Guira-Tangeima Brasiliensibus" of Marcgrave 1648, "Xanthornus major, nigro varius" of Browne 1725, "Pica luteo-nigra varia" of Sloane 1725, and Klein 1750, "Picus major ... nidum suspendens" of Barrére 1741, "Yellow and Black Pye" of Catesby 1731, "Cissa Americana" of Barrère 1745, "Cissa nigra cirrata, cauda lutea" of Linnaeus 1748, and other references; "Icterus Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 1, p. 30; 2, p. 85. Type, by tautonymy, Icterus Brisson = Oriolus icterus Linnaeus." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 149). The bright-orange Venezuelan Troupial is a declining species, thanks to trapping for the cage-bird market.
Synon. Andriopsar, Aporophantes, Ateleopsar, Bananivorus, Cassiculoides, Euopsar, Icterioides, Melanopsar, Pendulinus, Poliopsar, Rhyndace, Trupialis, Xanthornus, Yphantes.
icterus
L. icterus Golden Oriole < Gr. ικτερος ikteros yellow bird.
● ex “Troupiale” of Brisson 1760 (Icterus).
● ex “Pie-grièche Blanchot” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 285 (syn. Malaconotus blanchoti).
● Gr. ικτερος ikteros jaundice-yellow (syn. Ochrospiza mozambica).
prosthemelas
Gr. προσθεν prosthen front; μελας melas, μελανος melanos black.
SUBSPECIES
Black-cowled Oriole (prosthemelas)
SCI Name: Icterus prosthemelas prosthemelas
prosthemelas
Gr. προσθεν prosthen front; μελας melas, μελανος melanos black.
Black-cowled Oriole (praecox)
SCI Name: Icterus prosthemelas praecox
praecox
L. praecox, praecocis premature, precocious < prae before; coquere to think of.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
