Yellow-tailed Oriole

SCI Name:  Icterus mesomelas
Protonym:  Ps.[arocolius] mesomelas Isis 22 col.755
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Icterus
Taxonomy Code:  yetori1
Type Locality:  Mexico; type from Chalcaltianges, Veracruz, fide Stresemann, 1954, Condor, 56, p. 90.
Author:  Wagler
Publish Year:  1829
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).

mesomelas
Gr. μεσομελας mesomelas  white gemstone with a black stripe  < μεσος mesos  middle; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black.

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-tailed Oriole (mesomelas)
SCI Name: Icterus mesomelas mesomelas
mesomelas
Gr. μεσομελας mesomelas  white gemstone with a black stripe  < μεσος mesos  middle; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black.

Yellow-tailed Oriole (salvinii)
SCI Name: Icterus mesomelas salvinii
salvini / salvinii
Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) English ornithologist, Curator of Ornithology, Cambridge University 1874-1882, collector (syn. Accipiter erythronemius ventralis, syn. Alaemon alaudipes, syn. Amazilia violiceps, subsp. Amazona autumnalis, Antrostomus, subsp. Basileuterus rufifrons, syn. Certhidea olivacea, subsp. Chlorostilbon canivetii, subsp. Colinus virginianus, syn. Crypturellus variegatus, subsp. Cyphorhinus arada, subsp. Empidonax flavescens, subsp. Eubucco bourcierii, subsp. Eutoxeres aquila, subsp. Geospiza parvula, subsp. Habia fuscicauda, syn. Heliodoxa xanthogonys, subsp. Icterus mesomelas, subsp. Knipolegus poecilurus, subsp. Lampornis amethystinus, Mitu, subsp. Neomorphus geoffroyi, Oneillornis, Pachyptila, subsp. Pachyramphus albogriseus (ex Pachyramphus similis Salvin, 1895), subsp. Paraclaravis mondetoura, subsp. Picumnus exilis, syn. Popelairia conversii, subsp. Sclerurus guatemalensis, subsp. Sicalis olivascens, subsp. Spindalis zena, subsp. Sporophila funerea, Thalassarche, syn. Tinamus major fuscipennis, Tumbezia, subsp. Vireo pallens).

Yellow-tailed Oriole (carrikeri)
SCI Name: Icterus mesomelas carrikeri
carrikeri
Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr. (1879-1965) US ornithologist, entomologist, explorer, collector in the Neotropics (subsp. Athene cunicularia, subsp. Atlapetes rufinucha, ‡subsp. Capito hypoleucus, subsp. Catharus mexicanus, Dubusia, subsp. Formicarius rufipectus, Grallaria, subsp. Icterus mesomelas, Zentrygon).

Yellow-tailed Oriole (taczanowskii)
SCI Name: Icterus mesomelas taczanowskii
taczanowskia / taczanowskii / taczanowskius
Władysław Taczanowski (1819-1890) Polish zoologist, collector, Curator of Zoology, Warsaw University Mus., 1862-1890 (subsp. Asthenes flammulata, Atlapetes (ex Buarremon mystacalis Taczanowski, 1874), Cinclodes, syn. Columba rupestris, subsp. Euphonia chlorotica, syn. Garrulus glandarius brandtii, syn. Heliangelus clarisse, subsp. Icterus mesomelas, Leptopogon, Leucippus, syn. Limnodromus semipalmatus, syn. Locustella luteoventris, Nothoprocta, Onychostruthus, subsp. Picumnus lafresnayi, Podiceps, subsp. Riparia riparia, Sicalis, subsp. Tetrao urogallus, syn. Thalurania furcata jelskii).

Yellow-tailed Oriole (xantholemus)
SCI Name: Icterus mesomelas xantholemus
xantholemus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; λαιμος laimos  throat.