Ethiopian oriole
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Oriolidae |
| Genus: | Oriolus |
| Species: | O. monacha
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| Binomial name | |
| Oriolus monacha (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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The Ethiopian oriole (Oriolus monacha) is a species of bird in the family
Oriolidae
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It is found in north-eastern Africa where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Taxonomy
The Ethiopian oriole was
Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus monacha.[2][3] The specific epithet monacha is from Late Latin monachus meaning "monk".[4] 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 in his multi-volume Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.[5] The Ethiopian oriole is now one of 30 orioles placed in the genus Oriolus that was introduced in 1766 by Linnaeus.[6] Other common names include dark-headed or black-headed forest oriole and Abyssinian oriole.[7]
Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognized:[6]
- O. m. meneliki Blundell and Lovat, 1899 – Originally described as a separate species. Found in southern Ethiopia
- O. m. monacha (Gmelin, 1789) – Found in northern Ethiopia, Eritrea
References
- . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 824.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 132.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1775). "Le Moloxita". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 405–406.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Orioles, drongos, fantails". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
- ISBN 978-84-96553-45-3.