 In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the red-winged starling in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.He used the French name "Le merle du Cap de Bonne Espérance" and the Latin "Merula Capitis Bonae Spei".Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.