Cape starling [SEP] parent taxon
Cape starling
The Cape starling, red-shouldered glossy-starling or Cape glossy starling ("Lamprotornis nitens") is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in southern Africa, where it lives in woodlands, bushveld and in suburbs.
Taxonomy.
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Cape starling in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Angola. He used the French name "Le merle verd d'Angola" and the Latin "Merula Viridis
starling genus "Sturnus", which Juan Ignacio Molina also used when he first described the long-tailed meadowlark in 1782. In 1816, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot created the genus "Sturnella", moving the meadowlarks into his new taxon. Most taxonomists accepted the new genus, and the western meadowlark, Peruvian meadowlark and Lilian's meadowlark were all placed in this taxon when they were later described. When Charles Lucien Bonaparte described the white-browed meadowlark and pampas meadowlark, however, he assigned them to another newly created genus