Long-tailed Meadowlark

SCI Name:  Leistes loyca
Protonym:  Sturnus Loyca SaggioStoriaNat.Chile p.254,345
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Leistes
Taxonomy Code:  lotmea1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Molina
Publish Year:  1782
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LEISTES
(Icteridae; Ϯ Red-breasted Blackbird L. militaris) Gr. λῃστης lēistēs  robber  < λῃστευω lēisteuō  to rob (cf. λῃζομαι lēizomai  to plunder); "Sturnus prædatorius ... This notorious and celebrated corn-thief, the long reputed plunderer and pest of our honest and laborious farmers" (Wilson 1811); "I shall group these species together by the following characters under the generick name of LEÏSTES.  Rostrum crassum, rectum, basi altum, mandibulæ inferioris margine angulato; naribus rotundatis membrano partim tectis.  Alæ; remigibus 4^tis extimis fere æqualibus longissimis.  Cauda æqualis, rectricum apice angulato, rhachibus plerumque prolongatis, nudis.  Pedes mediocres, tarsis gracilibus.   The following birds may be referred to this group, the Oriolus Americanus, Gmel. being taken as the type.    Oriolus phœniceus. Linn. Syst. Vol. I. p. 161. sp. 5.  Icterus pterophœniceus. Briss. Orn. Tom. I. p. 97. sp. 12.  Le Commandeur. Buff. Ois. Tom. III. p. 214.  La Troupiale à ailes rouges. Pl. Enl. 402.  Red winged Starling. Cat. Car. Vol. I. t. 13.  Alb. Vol. I. t. 38.  Sturnus prædatorius. Wils. Am. Orn. Vol. 4. p. 30. pl. 30. f. 1, 2.     Oriolus Americanus. Gmel. Syst. Vol. I. p. 386. sp. 29.  Troupiale de Cayenne. Pl. Enl. 236. f. 2.  Red breasted Oriole. Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol. II. p. 430. sp. 14. - Vol. III. p. 120. sp. 43. Ed. 2^da.  Fœm.     Oriolus Guianensis. Linn. Syst. Vol. I. p. 162. sp. 9.  Icterus Guianensis, Briss. Orn. Tom. II. p. 107. sp. 18. t. 11. f. 2.  Troupiale de la Guiane, Pl. Enl. 536." (Vigors 1825); "Leistes Vigors, 1825, Zool. Journ., 2, p. 191. Type, by original designation, Oriolus americanus Gmelin = Emberiza militaris Linnaeus." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 175).
Synon. Hylike, Pedotribes.

loyca
Chilean name Loica for the Long-tailed Meadowlark (Leistes).

SUBSPECIES

Long-tailed Meadowlark (catamarcanus)
SCI Name: Leistes loyca catamarcanus
catamarcae / catamarcana / catamarcanus
Catamarca, Argentina.

Long-tailed Meadowlark (loyca)
SCI Name: Leistes loyca loyca
loyca
Chilean name Loica for the Long-tailed Meadowlark (Leistes).

Long-tailed Meadowlark (falklandicus)
SCI Name: Leistes loyca falklandicus
falklandica / falklandicus
Falkland Is. (Falkland Sound named after Anthony Cary 5th Viscount Falkland (1656-1694) MP, Treasurer of the Navy 1681-1689, First Lord of the Admiralty 1693-1694).
● ex “Caille des isles Malouines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 222, and “Malouine Quail” of Latham 1783 (syn. Attagis malouinus).
● ex “Rusty-crowned Plover” of Portlock 1789 (Charadrius).