Claim: Wheatear, The genus Oenanthe was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot(May 10, 1748, Yvetot – August 24, 1830) and implied that Cercomela and Oenanthe were synonyms
Evidence: The genus Oenanthe was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with Oenanthe leucura, the black wheatear, as the type species. Louis Pierre Vieillot (May 10, 1748, Yvetot – August 24, 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist. This implied that Cercomela and Oenanthe were synonyms.