Bullock's Oriole

SCI Name:  Icterus bullockii
Protonym:  Xanthornus Bullockii Philos.Mag.n.s. n.s., 1 p.436
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Icterus
Taxonomy Code:  bulori
Type Locality:  'Table land'' [of Mexico] ; restricted to Temascaltepec by van Rossem, 1945, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ., no. 21, p. 238.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1827
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).

bullocki / bullockii
● Dr Dillman Samuel Bullock (1878-1971) US missionary to Chile 1902-1912, teacher in USA 1912-1921, agronomist in Argentina 1921, Director of Escuela Agricola de El Vergel, Angol, Chile 1922-1958 (subsp. Aphrastura spinicauda).
● William Bullock, Sr. (?1773-1849) English naturalist, traveller, entrepreneur, and his son William Bullock, Jr. (?1796-?1827) mine agent, artist, collector in Mexico (syn. Cyanocorax formosus (ex Pica formosa Swainson, 1827, “A Synopsis of the Birds discovered in Mexico by W. Bullock, F.L.S. and H.S., and Mr William Bullock, jun.”), Icterus).
● William Bullock, Sr. (?1773-1849) English naturalist, traveller, entrepreneur (syn. Hydrobates leucorhous).

SUBSPECIES

Bullock's Oriole (bullockii)
SCI Name: Icterus bullockii bullockii
bullocki / bullockii
● Dr Dillman Samuel Bullock (1878-1971) US missionary to Chile 1902-1912, teacher in USA 1912-1921, agronomist in Argentina 1921, Director of Escuela Agricola de El Vergel, Angol, Chile 1922-1958 (subsp. Aphrastura spinicauda).
● William Bullock, Sr. (?1773-1849) English naturalist, traveller, entrepreneur, and his son William Bullock, Jr. (?1796-?1827) mine agent, artist, collector in Mexico (syn. Cyanocorax formosus (ex Pica formosa Swainson, 1827, “A Synopsis of the Birds discovered in Mexico by W. Bullock, F.L.S. and H.S., and Mr William Bullock, jun.”), Icterus).
● William Bullock, Sr. (?1773-1849) English naturalist, traveller, entrepreneur (syn. Hydrobates leucorhous).

Bullock's Oriole (parvus)
SCI Name: Icterus bullockii parvus
parvus
L. parvus  small, little, short.
● ex “Barbu du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 746, fig. 2, “Petit Barbu” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Little Barbet” of Latham 1782 (syn. Gymnobucco calvus).