The Ethiopian oriole (''Oriolus monacha'') is a species of bird in the family
Oriolidae.
It is found in north-eastern Africa where its natural
habitat is subtropical or tropical dry
forests.
Taxonomy
The Ethiopian oriole was
formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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in his revised and expanded edition of
Carl Linnaeus's ''
Systema Naturae
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''. He placed it with the thrushes in the
genus ''
Turdus'' and coined the
binomial name
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''Turdus monacha''. The specific epithet ''monacha'' is from
Late Latin ''monachus'' meaning "monk". Gmelin based his description on "Le Moloxita" or "La religieuse d'Abissinie" that had been described in 1775 by the French polymath
Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste.
His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent F ...
in his multi-volume ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux''. The Ethiopian oriole is now one of 30 orioles placed in the genus ''
Oriolus'' that was introduced in 1766 by Linnaeus.
Other common names include dark-headed or black-headed forest oriole and Abyssinian oriole.
Subspecies
Two
subspecies
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are recognized:
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Surname:
*Bryan Blundell (c. 1675–1756), English merchant and slave trader
*Christine Blundell (born 1961), British make-up artist
*Daphne Blundell (1916–2004), ...
and Lovat, 1899 – Originally described as a separate species. Found in southern Ethiopia
* ''O. m. monacha'' (Gmelin Gmelin may refer to:
* Gmelin's test, a chemical test
* Gmelin database, a German handbook/encyclopedia of inorganic compounds initiated by Leopold Gmelin
People
* Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis ...
, 1789) – Found in northern Ethiopia, Eritrea
References
Ethiopian oriole
The Ethiopian oriole (''Oriolus monacha'') is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae.
It is found in north-eastern Africa where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Taxonomy
The Ethiopian oriole was formally describe ...
Ethiopian oriole
The Ethiopian oriole (''Oriolus monacha'') is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae.
It is found in north-eastern Africa where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Taxonomy
The Ethiopian oriole was formally describe ...
Birds of the Horn of Africa
Ethiopian oriole
The Ethiopian oriole (''Oriolus monacha'') is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae.
It is found in north-eastern Africa where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Taxonomy
The Ethiopian oriole was formally describe ...
Ethiopian oriole
The Ethiopian oriole (''Oriolus monacha'') is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae.
It is found in north-eastern Africa where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Taxonomy
The Ethiopian oriole was formally describe ...
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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