Slate-coloured grosbeak: Difference between revisions

In 1760 the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] included a description of the slate-coloured grosbeak in the supplement to his ''Ornithologie'' based on a specimen collected in "America". He used the French name ''Le gros-bec bleu d'Amérique'' and the Latin name ''Coccothraustes americana caerulea''.<ref name=brisson>{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés | volume=Supplement | language=French, Latin | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | pages=89–91, Plate 5 fig 1 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36211701 }} The two stars (**) at the start of the paragraph indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.</ref> Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial system]] and are not recognised by the [[International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]].<ref name=allen>{{cite journal |last=Allen | first=J.A. | author-link=Joel Asaph Allen | year=1910 | title=Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=28 | pages=317–335 | url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/678}}</ref> When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] updated his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' for the [[12th edition of Systema Naturae|twelfth edition]] he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson in his ''Ornithologie''.<ref name=allen/> One of these was the slate-coloured grosbeak. Linnaeus included a terse description, coined the [[binomial name]] ''Loxia grossa'' and cited Brisson's work.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | authorlinkauthor-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1766 | title=Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=12th | volume=Volume 1, Part 1 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | place=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | page=307 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946503 }}</ref> The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]] ''grossa, grossus'' is Latin for "thick", "rough" or "coarse".<ref name=hbwkey>{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2018 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/key-to-scientific-names-in-ornithology?name=grossus | accessdateaccess-date=2 April 2018 }}</ref> The [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] has been restricted to French Guiana.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=Volume 13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=227 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483462 }}</ref> This species is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Saltator]]'' that was introduced by the French ornithologist [[Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot|Louis Pierre Vieillot]] in 1816.<ref>{{cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Jean Pierre | author-link=Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot | title=Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire | publisher=Deterville/self | year=1816 | location=Paris | page=32 | language=French| url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f38.image }}</ref>