Black-throated Green Warbler

SCI Name:  Setophaga virens
Protonym:  Motacilla virens Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.985
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Parulidae / Setophaga
Taxonomy Code:  btnwar
Type Locality:  Pennsylvania ; restricted to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Amer. Ornith. Union, 1910, Checkhst North Amer. Birds, ed. 3, p. 317.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SETOPHAGA
(Parulidae; Ϯ American Redstart S. ruticilla) Gr. σης sēs, σητος sētos  moth; -φαγος -phagos  -eating  < φαγειν phagein  to eat; "G. SETOPHAGA.  Sw. in Zool. Journ. No. 10.    17. Setophaga ruticilla.  Muscicapa ruticilla, Lin. mas.  M. flavicaudæ. Gm. fem. Maritime parts.   18. Setophaga miniata.  Cinereous, breast and body beneath vermilion; tail black, the lateral tail feathers partly white.  Table land: woods of Valadolid; rare, size of the last.   19. Setophaga rubra.  Entirely red, ear feathers of a silky whiteness. Inhabits the same woods, and is of the same size as the last." (Swainson 1827 (May)); "SETOPHAGA.  Rostrum parvum; culmine carinato. Alæ mediocres; remigibus 1^ma et 4^ta æqualibus, 2^da et 3^tia æqualibus, longissimis. Cauda sub-elongata, rotundata. Pedes graciles, tarsis squamis anterioribus divisis, lateralibus integris.  ...  Type. Muscicapa ruticilla. Linn.  ...  It represents, in the new world, the Australian genus Rhipidura" (Swainson 1827 (July)); "Setophaga Swainson, 1827 (May), Philos. Mag., new ser., 1, fasc. 5, p. 368. Type, by subsequent designation (Swainson, 1827 (July), Zool. Journ., 3, p. 360), Motacilla ruticilla Linnaeus." (Lowery & Monroe in Peters 1968, XIV, 33). Doubtless time will soften the dismay of birdwatchers caused by the absorption of Dendroica, Parula and Wilsonia into Setophaga.
Var. Cetophaga.   
Synon. Agreocantor, Azuria, Caeruleocantor, Chloris, Chrysocantor, Compsothlypis, Dendroica, Fruticantor, Lineocantor, Maculocantor, Myioctonus, Myiodioctes, Neodendroica, Parula, Perissoglossa, Piceacantor, Pinacantor, Ruticilla, Sylvania, Sylvicola, Sylviocantor, Sylviparus, Terracantor, Vireocantor, Wilsonia.

virens
L. virens, virentis  green  < virere  to be green.
● ex “Olive-green Creeper” of Latham 1782 (Chlorodrepanis).
● ex “Gobe-mouche cendré de la Caroline” of Brisson 1760 (Contopus).
● "95. TURDUS.  ...  virens.  16. T. nigro-virens, subtus lutescens, superciliis albis.  Oenanthe americana, pectore luteo. Catesb. car. I. p. 50. t. 50.  Habitat in America." (Linnaeus 1758) (Icteria).
● ex “Grand Barbu de la Chine” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 871, “Grand Barbu” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Grand Barbet” of Latham 1783 (Psilopogon).
● ex "Ficedula pensilvanica gutture nigro" of Brisson 1760, "Black-throated Green Fly-catcher" of Edwards 1760, "Figuier à cravatte noire" of de Buffon 1770-1783, and "Green Warbler" of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (Setophaga).
● ex “Merle de St.-Domingue” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 273, fig. 1, and “Merle olive de St.-Domingue” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (unident.;?Vireo sp.).