Yellow-backed Oriole

SCI Name:  Icterus chrysater
Protonym:  Xanthornus chrysater EchoMondeSav.(2), 11 no.9 col.204
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Icterus
Taxonomy Code:  yebori1
Type Locality:  Mexico.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1844
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).

chrysater
Late L. chrysos gold < Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; L. ater black.

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-backed Oriole (chrysater)
SCI Name: Icterus chrysater chrysater
chrysater
Late L. chrysos gold < Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; L. ater black.

Yellow-backed Oriole (mayensis)
SCI Name: Icterus chrysater mayensis
mayensis
Maya, an ancient people and civilization of southern Mexico and the Yucatán.

Yellow-backed Oriole (giraudii)
SCI Name: Icterus chrysater giraudii
giraudi / giraudii
Jacob Post Giraud, Jr. (1811-1870) US businessman, naturalist, Treasurer of New York Lyceum of Natural History (syn. Dendrocopos scalaris cactophilus, subsp. Eremophila alpestris, subsp. Icterus chrysater, subsp. Peucedramus taeniatus (ex Sylvia olivacea Giraud, 1841)).

Yellow-backed Oriole (hondae)
SCI Name: Icterus chrysater hondae
hondae
Honda, Río Magdalena, Andalucía, Colombia.