Orangequit

SCI Name:  Euneornis campestris
Protonym:  Motacilla campestris Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.184
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Euneornis
Taxonomy Code:  orange1
Type Locality:  Jamaica.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EUNEORNIS
(Thraupidae; † Orangequit E. campestris) Gr. ευ eu  fine; genus Neornis Hartlaub, 1846, orangequit; the Orangequit, a Jamaican endemic, was for long included in the "Coerebidae", a hotch-potch group of "honeycreepers" now known to be unrelated; "Tanagrella, Gray.  ...  Euneornis, Fitz. (Motacilla campestris, Linn.)" (Fitzinger 1856); "Euneornis Fitzinger, 1856, Sitzungb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturwiss. Kl., 21 (2), p. 316.  Type, by original designation, Motacilla campestris Linnaeus." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 408).
Synon. Glossiptila, Neornis.

campestris
L. campester, campestris of the fields or plains < campus, campi field.
● "93. ALAUDA.  ...  campestris.  4. A. rectricibus fuscis inferiori medietate, exceptis intermediis duabus, albis, gula pectoreque flavescente. Fn. svec. 193.  Alauda minor campestris. Will. orn. 150. Raj. av. 70. n. 6.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Anthus).
● ex “Chorlito ribetes blancos acanelados” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 398 (syn. Bartramia longicauda).
● ex “Gavilan del campo pardo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 33 (syn. Circus cinereus) (=☼).
● ex “Carpintero campestre” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 253 (Colaptes).
● ex “American Hedge-Sparrow” of Edwards 1750 (Euneornis).
● ex “Chorlito campesino” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 397 (syn. Numenius borealis).
● ex “Ñacundá ” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 312 (syn. Podager nacunda).