Yellow-throated warbler
species of bird
The yellow-throated warbler (Setophaga dominica) is a small migratory songbird species in the New World warbler family (Parulidae) found in temperate North America.
Taxonomy
The yellow-throated warbler was formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla dominica. Linnaeus based his account on "Le Figuier cendré de S. Dominigue" that had been described and illustrated in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in his multivolume Ornithology. Linnaeus specified the location as Jamaica and Dominica but this was restricted to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic by the American Ornithologists' Union in 1910. The yellow-throated warbler is now one of over 30 species placed in the genus Setophaga that was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1827. The genus name Setophaga combines the Ancient Greek σης/sēs, σητος/sētos meaning "moth" with -φαγος/-phagos meaning "-eating".
Three subspecies are currently accepted:
S. d. albilora (Ridgway, 1873) – breeds in central east USA, west of the Appalachian Mountains
S. d. dominica (Linnaeus, 1766) – breeds in east, southeast USA, east of the Appalachian Mountains
S. d. stoddardi (Sutton, 1951) – breeds in northwest Florida and south Alabama (southeast USA), south of the Appalachian Mountains
The differences between the subspecies are small, and some authors treat the species as monotypic.
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