Yellow-winged Cacique

SCI Name:  Cassiculus melanicterus
Protonym:  Icterus melanicterus J.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 4 pt2 p.389
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae / Cassiculus
Taxonomy Code:  yewcac1
Type Locality:  Mexico ; restricted to Temascaltepec, Mexico by van Rossem, 1945, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ., no. 21, p. 234.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1825
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CASSICULUS
(Icteridae; Ϯ Yellow-winged Cacique C. melanicterus) Dim. < genus Cassicus Illiger, 1811, cacique; "G. CASSICULUS. Swains. in Zool. Journ. No. 10.    61. Cassiculus coronatus.  Black; wing covers, rump, vent, and lateral tail feathers yellow; crest elongated, pendulous; bill white.  Table land. Temiscaltipec." (Swainson 1827 (June)); "CASSICULUS.  Rostrum sub-elongatum, compressissimum, culmine basi non depresso.  Alæ mediocres, remigibus 1^ma, 2^da, et 3^tia abrupte attenuatis, falcatis.  ...  Type. C. coronatus.  ...  In this form are united the characters of Cassicus and Xanthornus  ...  I suspect this type will not stand alone; yet, for the present, it may be looked upon rather as a sub-genus." (Swainson 1827 (December));  "Cassiculus Swainson, Phil. Mag., (n.s.), 1, No. 6, p. 436, June, 1827; idem, Zool. Journ., 3, No. 11, Sept.-Dec., p. 352, 1827—type, by orig. desig., Cassiculus coronatus Swainson = Icterus melanicterus Bonaparte." (Hellmayr, 1937, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. X, p. 45).

melanictera / melanicterus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; ικτερος ikteros  jaundice-yellow.
● ex “Troupiale jaune à calotte noire de Cayenne” (= ☼) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 533 (syn. Gymnomystax mexicanus).
● ex “Black and Orange Finch” of Latham 1783 (syn. Melophus lathami).
● ex “Yellow-breasted Flycatcher” of Brown 1776, and Latham 1783 (Pycnonotus).
● ex “Merle Jaune Huppé” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 117 (artefact).