The Montserrat oriole was formally described in 1880 by the American amateur ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence from a specimen collected on the island Montserrat during an expedition to the West Indies led by the US naturalist Frederick Albion Ober.
In 1880, George Newbold Lawrence, an American amateur ornithologist, identified the Montserrat oriole using a specimen collected from Montserrat during an expedition led by the US naturalist Frederick Albion Ober in the West Indies.