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 in his revised and expanded edition of
Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the
genusTurdus and coined the
binomial nameTurdus monacha.[2][3] The specific epithet monacha is from
Late Latinmonachus 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]
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