Yellow-headed Blackbird

SCI Name:  Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Protonym:  Icterus xanthocephalus J.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 5 p.223
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Xanthocephalus
Taxonomy Code:  yehbla
Type Locality:  Pawnee villages on the river Platte ; - along the Loup River, just west of Fullerton, Nance County, Nebraska, fide Swenk, 1933, Nebraska Bird Rev., 1, p. 34.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

XANTHOCEPHALUS
(Icteridae; Ϯ Yellow-headed Blackbird X. xanthocephalus) Specific name Icterus xanthocephalus Bonaparte, 1826; "*927. Xanthocephalus, Bp. (Agelaius, p. Gr.)   America s. 1.    ICTERUS ICTEROCEPHALUS, Say. nec L. (Icter. xanthocephalus, Bp. - perspicillatus, Licht. - Agelaius xanthocephalus, Sw. - Ag. longipes, Sw. 1827. - Psarocolius perspicillatus, Wagl. 1829. - Xanthocephalus perspicillatus, Bp. 1850) Am. Orn. Cont. t. 3. 1. mas. 2. faem. Audab[sic]. Am. t. 388. 2. 3. ex Amer. occ. bor.   Major: niger; capite pectoreque flavis: speculo alarum duplice albo." (Bonaparte 1850); "Xanthocephalus Bonaparte, 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 431. Type, by monotypy, Psarocolius perspicillatus Wagler = Icterus xanthocephalus Bonaparte." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 166).

xanthocephalus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow, golden; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.
● "Yellow-headed Troopial ...Niger; capite, collo, pectoreque aurantiacis  ... black; head, neck and breast orange" (Bonaparte 1826); ex Icterus icterocephalus Bonaparte, 1825 (Xanthocephalus).

XANTHOCEPHALUS
(Icteridae; Ϯ Yellow-headed Blackbird X. xanthocephalus) Specific name Icterus xanthocephalus Bonaparte, 1826; "*927. Xanthocephalus, Bp. (Agelaius, p. Gr.)   America s. 1.    ICTERUS ICTEROCEPHALUS, Say. nec L. (Icter. xanthocephalus, Bp. - perspicillatus, Licht. - Agelaius xanthocephalus, Sw. - Ag. longipes, Sw. 1827. - Psarocolius perspicillatus, Wagl. 1829. - Xanthocephalus perspicillatus, Bp. 1850) Am. Orn. Cont. t. 3. 1. mas. 2. faem. Audab[sic]. Am. t. 388. 2. 3. ex Amer. occ. bor.   Major: niger; capite pectoreque flavis: speculo alarum duplice albo." (Bonaparte 1850); "Xanthocephalus Bonaparte, 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 431. Type, by monotypy, Psarocolius perspicillatus Wagler = Icterus xanthocephalus Bonaparte." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 166).

xanthocephalus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow, golden; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.
● "Yellow-headed Troopial ...Niger; capite, collo, pectoreque aurantiacis  ... black; head, neck and breast orange" (Bonaparte 1826); ex Icterus icterocephalus Bonaparte, 1825 (Xanthocephalus).