https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2020.489

The original description of Sylvia melanocephala (Aves: Sylviidae), with notes on David Piesch’s birds of Sardinia (1784)

Vol. 90 No. 2 (2020)
Submitted: 14 October 2020
Accepted: 20 October 2020
Published: 1 February 2021
David Piesch, historical ornithology, nomenclature, Sardinia.
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Jiří Mlíkovský
jmlikovsky@gmail.com
Center for Historical Ornithology, Praha, Czechia.

The name of the Sardinian Warbler Sylvia melanocephala is usually attributed to Gmelin (1789), but it dates from Piesch (1784). The correct name of the Sardinian Warbler is thus Sylvia melanocephala (Piesch, 1784). Comments are added on other bird species described by Piesch (1784) from Sardinia.

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Mlíkovský J. . (2021). The original description of <em>Sylvia melanocephala</em> (Aves: Sylviidae), with notes on David Piesch’s birds of Sardinia (1784). Rivista Italiana Di Ornitologia, 90(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2020.489

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