Claim: Wheatear, The genus Oenanthe was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot and implied that Cercomela and Oenanthe were synonyms.
Evidence: The wheatears /ˈhwiːtɪər/ are passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe. 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. This implied that Cercomela and Oenanthe were synonyms.