Editing Thrush nightingale (section)

==Taxonomy==
The thrush nightingale was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. He placed it with the wagtails in the [[genus]] ''[[Motacilla]]'' and coined the [[binomial name]] ''Motacilla luscinia''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=184 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727091 }}</ref> Linnaeus specied the [[type location (biology)|type location]] as "Europae frondosis" (leafy Europe) but this was restricted to Sweden by German ornithologist [[Ernst Hartert]] in 1910.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Hartert | first=Ernst | author-link=Ernst Hartert | year=1910 | title=Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna | volume=1 | language=German | location=Berlin | publisher=R. Friedländer und Sohn | page=736 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14030553 }} Published in sections. For the dates see: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | pages=106-107 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 | ref=none }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology  | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=40 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486229 }}</ref> The thrush nightingale is now one of the four species placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Luscinia]]'' that was introduced by the English naturalist [[Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster|Thomas Forster]] in 1817. The species is considered to be [[monotypic]]: no [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=23 February 2025}}</ref> The genus name and specific epithet are [[Latin]] for the [[common nightingale]] (''Luscinia megarhynchos'').<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=luscinia | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=luscinia | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=23 February 2025 }}</ref> The common name "Nightingale" is derived from "night", and the [[Old English]] ''galan'', "to sing".<ref name=OED>{{ OED |Nightingale}}</ref><ref name=OEDgale>{{ OED |Gale}}</ref>