Finsch’s Wheatear
Finsch's Wheatear
Here the details of the Finsch's Wheatear named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Saxicola Finschii Orn.NordostAfr. 1 p.350
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code: finwhe1
Type Locality: Siberia [= Syria, vide Meinertzhagen, 1930, in Nicoll, Birds Egypt, 1, p. 273].
Author: von Heuglin
Publish Year: 1869
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe. Motacilla, Linn. Silvia et Turdus, Lath. Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue. Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816 F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.
oenanthe
L. oenanthe wheatear < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season < οινη oinē vine; ανθος anthos bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ... Oenanthe. 17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217. Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55. β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219. Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54. Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis. Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).
finschii
Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, ornithologist, collector (Alophoixus, Ducula, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, syn. Microcarbo melanoleucos brevirostris, Micropsitta, Oenanthe, syn. Pachycephala citreogaster, Psittacula, subsp. Rhipidura isura, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, Zosterops) (see finschi).
SUBSPECIES
Finsch's Wheatear (finschii)
SCI Name: Oenanthe finschii finschii
finschii
Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, ornithologist, collector (Alophoixus, Ducula, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, syn. Microcarbo melanoleucos brevirostris, Micropsitta, Oenanthe, syn. Pachycephala citreogaster, Psittacula, subsp. Rhipidura isura, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, Zosterops) (see finschi).
Finsch's Wheatear (barnesi)
SCI Name: Oenanthe finschii barnesi
barnesi
● Wilfred Barnes (fl. 1948) Australian naturalist (Astrapia mayeri x Astrapia stephaniae).
● Dr Ventura Barnés, Jr. (b. 1910) Puerto Rican engineer, agronomist, collector, Curator of Phelps Collection, Caracas (subsp. Colinus cristatus).
● Lt. Henry Edwin Barnes (1848-1896) British Army, commissary in Aden, India and Afghanistan, oologist, collector (subsp. Oenanthe finschii).
● Philip de Villiers Barnes (1883-1951) Chief Ranger of Giant’s Castle Game Reserve, Natal 1911-1943 (subsp. Sylvia layardi).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)