The Key to Scientific Names
- LEISTES
(Icteridae; Ϯ Red-breasted Blackbird / Red-breasted Meadowlark L. militaris) Gr. λῃστης lēistēs robber < λῃστευω lēisteuō to rob (cf. λῃζομαι lēizomai to plunder); "Sturnus prædatorius ... This notorious and celebrated corn-thief, the long reputed plunderer and pest of our honest and laborious farmers" (Wilson 1811); "I shall group these species together by the following characters under the generick name of LEÏSTES. Rostrum crassum, rectum, basi altum, mandibulæ inferioris margine angulato; naribus rotundatis membrano partim tectis. Alæ; remigibus 4tis extimis fere æqualibus longissimis. Cauda æqualis, rectricum apice angulato, rhachibus plerumque prolongatis, nudis. Pedes mediocres, tarsis gracilibus. The following birds may be referred to this group, the Oriolus Americanus, Gmel. being taken as the type. Oriolus phœniceus. Linn. Syst. Vol. I. p. 161. sp. 5. Icterus pterophœniceus. Briss. Orn. Tom. I. p. 97. sp. 12. Le Commandeur. Buff. Ois. Tom. III. p. 214. La Troupiale à ailes rouges. Pl. Enl. 402. Red winged Starling. Cat. Car. Vol. I. t. 13. Alb. Vol. I. t. 38. Sturnus prædatorius. Wils. Am. Orn. Vol. 4. p. 30. pl. 30. f. 1, 2. Oriolus Americanus. Gmel. Syst. Vol. I. p. 386. sp. 29. Troupiale de Cayenne. Pl. Enl. 236. f. 2. Red breasted Oriole. Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol. II. p. 430. sp. 14. - Vol. III. p. 120. sp. 43. Ed. 2da. Fœm. Oriolus Guianensis. Linn. Syst. Vol. I. p. 162. sp. 9. Icterus Guianensis, Briss. Orn. Tom. II. p. 107. sp. 18. t. 11. f. 2. Troupiale de la Guiane, Pl. Enl. 536." (Vigors 1825); "Leistes Vigors, 1825, Zool. Journ., 2, p. 191. Type, by original designation, Oriolus americanus Gmelin = Emberiza militaris Linnaeus." (Blake in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 175).
Synon. Hylike, Pedotribes, Sturnella.
● (Icteridae; syn. Pseudoleistes † Yellow-rumped Marshbird P. guirahuro) “LEÏSTES Vigors. Bill more or less long, culmen straight and flattened, with the base advancing on the forehead in a point, the sides compressed gradually to the tip, which is rounded; the gonys lengthened and advancing upwards; the nostrils basal, lateral, and membranous. Wings long and pointed, with the first three quills nearly equal and longest. Tail moderate and rounded. Tarsi shorter than the middle toe, and covered with broad scutellations. Toes lengthened, with the lateral ones unequal, and strongly scaled above; the claws long and rather curved. ... 1. L. viridis (Gmel.) Pl. enlum. 236. f. 1. — Agelaius Guirahuro Vieill. ... 2. L. americanus (Linn.) Vigors, Pl. enlum. 236. fig. 2. ... 3. L. anticus (Licht.) ... 4. L. brevirostris Swains. ... 5. L. tenuirostris Swains.” (G. Gray 1847); “Leistes “Vigors” G. Gray, 1847, Genera of Birds, II, p. [347] (not of Vigors, 1825). Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 69), Oriolus viridis Gmelin, 1788 (not of Statius Müller, 1776) = Agelaius guirahuro Vieillot, 1819.” (JAJ 2022) (see Pseudoleistes).- PSEUDOLEISTES
(Icteridae; Ϯ Yellow-rumped Marshbird P. guirahuro) Gr. ψευδος pseudos false; genus Leistes Vigors, 1825, blackbird; “The genus Pseudoleistes means 'false meadowlark'; however, Yellow-rumped Marshbird is less meadowlark-like than its southern relative” (Jaramillo & Burke 1999); "GENUS PSEUDOLEISTES. 833. PSEUDOLEISTES VIRIDIS. Oriolus viridis, Gm. S.N. i. p. 395. Agelaius guirahuro, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. xxiv. p. 545, et Enc. Méth. p. 717. Icterus dominicensis, Licht. Doubl. p. 19. Leistes suchii, Vig. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 192. pl. suppl. 10. Xanthornus gasquetii, Q. et G. Voy. Uran. Ois. pl. 24. Leistes oriolides, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 303. Leistes viridis, Bp. Consp. p. 436; Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 189; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 264. ... 834. PSEUDOLEISTES VIRESCENS. Agelaius virescens, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. xxxiv. p. 543, et Enc. Méth. p. 716 (ex Azara, No. 65). Leistes virescens, Hartl. Syst. Ind. Az. p. 5; Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 190. Icterus anticus, Licht. Doubl. p. 19. Leistes anticus, Bp. Consp. p. 436; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 265. LEISTES* ... * Founded by Swainson, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 191, where Oriolus americanus, Gm., is given as the type. I have therefore used the term Pseudoleistes for the preceding section, which is usually called Leistes." (P. Sclater 1862); "Pseudoleistes P. L. Sclater, 1862, Cat. Coll. Amer. Birds, p. 137. Type, by subsequent designation (P. L. Sclater, 1884, Ibis, p. 19), "Pseudoleistes viridis" = Agelaius guirahuro Vieillot." (Blake in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 181).
Var. Peudoleistes.
Synon. Leistes.
