Finsch's Wheatear

SCI Name:  Oenanthe finschii
Protonym:  Saxicola Finschii Orn.NordostAfr. 1 p.350
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code:  finwhe1
Type Locality:  Siberia [= Syria, vide Meinertzhagen, 1930, in Nicoll, Birds Egypt, 1, p. 273].
Author:  von Heuglin
Publish Year:  1869
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe.  Motacilla, Linn.  Silvia et Turdus, Lath.  Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue.   Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816  F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.

oenanthe
L. oenanthe  wheatear  < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē  unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season  < οινη oinē  vine; ανθος anthos  bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ...  Oenanthe.  17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217.  Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55.  β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219.  Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54.  Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis.  Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).

finschii
Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, ornithologist, collector (Alophoixus, Ducula, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, syn. Microcarbo melanoleucos brevirostris, Micropsitta, Oenanthe, syn. Pachycephala citreogaster, Psittacula, subsp. Rhipidura isura, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, Zosterops) (see finschi).

SUBSPECIES

Finsch's Wheatear (finschii)
SCI Name: Oenanthe finschii finschii
finschii
Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, ornithologist, collector (Alophoixus, Ducula, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, syn. Microcarbo melanoleucos brevirostris, Micropsitta, Oenanthe, syn. Pachycephala citreogaster, Psittacula, subsp. Rhipidura isura, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, Zosterops) (see finschi).

Finsch's Wheatear (barnesi)
SCI Name: Oenanthe finschii barnesi
barnesi
● Wilfred Barnes (fl. 1948) Australian naturalist (Astrapia mayeri x Astrapia stephaniae).
● Dr Ventura Barnés, Jr. (b. 1910) Puerto Rican engineer, agronomist, collector, Curator of Phelps Collection, Caracas (subsp. Colinus cristatus).
● Lt. Henry Edwin Barnes (1848-1896) British Army, commissary in Aden, India and Afghanistan, oologist, collector (subsp. Oenanthe finschii).
● Philip de Villiers Barnes (1883-1951) Chief Ranger of Giant’s Castle Game Reserve, Natal 1911-1943 (subsp. Sylvia layardi).