Prairie Warbler

SCI Name:  Setophaga discolor
Protonym:  Sylvia discolor Hist.Nat.Ois.Am.Sept. 2 p.37 pl.98
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Parulidae / Setophaga
Taxonomy Code:  prawar
Type Locality:  United States and Greater Antilles; type from ''the Antilles,'' fide Stenhouse, 1930, Novit. Zool., 35, p. 271.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1809
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.

discolor / discolorus
L. discolor, discoloris  of different colours, parti-coloured, various   < color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Grand Coucou de Madagascar” of Brisson 1760, “Vouron-Driou” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “African Cuckow cum var. A” of Latham 1782 (Leptosomus).
● ex “Tangavio du Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 710, and “Tordo común” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 61 (syn. Molothrus bonariensis).
● See: dicolorus 

SUBSPECIES

Prairie Warbler (discolor)
SCI Name: Setophaga discolor discolor
discolor / discolorus
L. discolor, discoloris  of different colours, parti-coloured, various   < color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Grand Coucou de Madagascar” of Brisson 1760, “Vouron-Driou” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “African Cuckow cum var. A” of Latham 1782 (Leptosomus).
● ex “Tangavio du Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 710, and “Tordo común” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 61 (syn. Molothrus bonariensis).
● See: dicolorus 

Prairie Warbler (paludicola)
SCI Name: Setophaga discolor paludicola
paludicola
L. paludicola  marsh-dweller  < palus, paludis  swamp; -cola  dweller  < colere  to inhabit.
● ex “Hirondelle des Marais” or “Brunette” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 246, fig. 2 (Riparia).