Lanius rufus Linnaeus, 1766 The rufous vanga (Schetba rufa) is a species of bird in the family Vangidae.

[1] In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the rufous vanga in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected on the island of Madagascar.

He used the French name La pie-griesche rousse de Madagascar and the Latin Lanius Madagascariensis rufus.

[3] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

[4] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.