Bobolink

Here the details of the Bobolink named bird below:

SCI Name:  Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Protonym:  Fringilla oryzivora Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.179
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Dolichonyx
Taxonomy Code:  boboli
Type Locality:  'in Cuba, ... in Carolinam ;'' restricted to South Carolina by Amer. Ornith. Union, 1931, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, p. 301.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DOLICHONYX
(Icteridae; Ϯ Bobolink D. oryzivorus) Gr. δολιχος dolikhos  long; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos  claw, nail; "G. DOLICHONYX. Swains. in Zool. Journ. No. 10.  Dolichonyx orzivorus [sic]. Sw. Wilson ii. pl. 12. f. 1, 2.  Table land." (Swainson 1827 (Philos. Mag., ser. 2, I); "DOLICHONYX.  Rostrum breve, conicum, acutum, immarginatum.  Alæ longæ, attenuatæ; remigibus 1ma et 2da æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda scansoria, subgradata; rectricibus rigidis, abrupte acuminatis.  Pedes graciles, longiusculi; digitis longis; unguibus gracilibus, acutis, subcurvatis.  ... Type. Emberiza oryzivora. Wilson, 2. Pl. 12. fig.1.  This singular bird is distinguished from all its congeners by having a tail perfectly scansorial; not merely worn, but formed precisely upon the same model as that of Dendrocolaptes." (Swainson 1827 (Zool. Journal, III)); "Dolichonyx Swainson, 1827, Philos. Mag., new ser., 1, p. 435. Type, by monotypy, Fringilla oryzivora Linnaeus." (Blake in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 201).
Var. Dolichonix, Doliconyx, Dolychonyx, Dolychronyx, Dolychonix.
Synon. Dolychoeix.

oryzivora / oryzivorus
L. oryza  rice  < Gr. ορυζα oruza  rice; -vorus  eating  < vorare  to devour.
● "98. FRINGILLA.  ...  oryzivora.  1. F. fusca, cervice fulva, macula alarum dorsoque postico albis.  Hortulanus carolinensis. Catesb. car. I. p. 14. t. 14.  Emberiza carolinensis. Klein. av. 92.  Habitat in Cuba, ubi autumno consumta Oryza; feminæ solæ descendunt in Carolinam.  Femina grisea tota a mare colore differt." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dolichonyx).
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  oryzivora.  11. L.fusca, temporibus albis, rostro rubro. Chin. Lagerstr. 16.  Loxia remigibus rectricibusque nigris. Mus. Ad. Fr. I. p. 18.  Fringilla capite & gula nigra, temporibus albis. Osb. iter. 103.  Oryzivora. Edw. av. 41. t. 41, 42.  Passer indicus. Aldr. orn. l. 15. c. 24.  Habitat in Asia & Æthiopia inter Oryzam." (Linnaeus 1758) (Lonchura).
● ex “Rice Oriole” of Latham 1782 (Molothrus).