 In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow bishop in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good Hope.He used the French name "Le pinçon du Cap de Bonne Espérance" and the Latin "Fringilla 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.