Black-vented Oriole

SCI Name:  Icterus wagleri
Protonym:  Icterus wagleri Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt25 no.327 p.7
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Icterus
Taxonomy Code:  bkvori
Type Locality:  no locality ; type from Mexico, fide P. L. Sclater, 1886, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 11, p. 373.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1857
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).

wagleri / waglerii
Johann Georg Wagler (1800-1832) German herpetologist, systematist (Aulacorhynchus, syn. Cyanophaia bicolor, syn. Dendrocopos analis (OD per Björn Bergenholtz), Icterus, subsp. Lepidocolaptes squamatus, syn. Melanerpes rubricapillus, Ortalis, Psarocolius, Psittacara, syn. Pygoscelis papua, syn. Vanellus gregarius, syn. Veniliornis mixtus cancellatus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-vented Oriole (castaneopectus)
SCI Name: Icterus wagleri castaneopectus
castaneopectus
L. castaneus  chestnut-brown  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; pectus, pectoris  breast.

Black-vented Oriole (wagleri)
SCI Name: Icterus wagleri wagleri
wagleri / waglerii
Johann Georg Wagler (1800-1832) German herpetologist, systematist (Aulacorhynchus, syn. Cyanophaia bicolor, syn. Dendrocopos analis (OD per Björn Bergenholtz), Icterus, subsp. Lepidocolaptes squamatus, syn. Melanerpes rubricapillus, Ortalis, Psarocolius, Psittacara, syn. Pygoscelis papua, syn. Vanellus gregarius, syn. Veniliornis mixtus cancellatus).