Great Pampa-Finch

Great Pampa-Finch / Embernagra platensis

Great Pampa-Finch

Here the details of the Great Pampa-Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Embernagra platensis
Protonym:  Emberiza platensis Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.886
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  grpfin1
Type Locality:  Buenos Aires.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1789
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

EMBERNAGRA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Great Pampafinch E. platensis) Portmanteau of genera Emberiza Linnaeus, 1758, bunting, and Tanagra Linnaeus, 1764, tanager; "VI.e Sous-genre. EMBERNAGRE; Embernagra.  Les Tangaras-Bruants.  Bec alongé, conique, à arête presque droite, pointue, à bords renflés, bordés; narines ouvertes, rondes; ailes courtes, dépassant à peine le croupion; queue longue, inégale, comme étagée, à rectrices terminées en pointe; tarses longs, forts, robustes.   58.º TANGARA FABIALATU; Tanagra fabialatu, Mus. de Paris. De la Plata.    59.º TANGARA DES BUISSONS; Tanagra dumetorum, Mus. de Paris.  ...  Du Brésil." (Lesson 1831); "Embernagra Lesson, 1831, Traité d'Ornith., p. 465. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra dumetorum Lesson = Emberiza platensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 131).
Synon. Limnospiza.

platensis
Río de la Plata, Argentina. The Spanish Vice-royalty of Río de la Plata was roughly equivalent to modern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
● Buenos Aires; ex “Roitelet de Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 730 (Cistothorus)
● Buenos Aires; ex “Emberise à cinq couleurs” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Plata Bunting” of Latham 1783 (Embernagra).
● Isla La Plata, Manaví, Ecuador (subsp. Mimus longicaudatus).

SUBSPECIES

Great Pampa-Finch (Western)
SCI Name: Embernagra platensis olivascens
olivascens
Mod. L. olivascens, olivascentis  somewhat olive  < L. oliva  olive.

Great Pampa-Finch (Eastern)
SCI Name: Embernagra platensis platensis
platensis
Río de la Plata, Argentina. The Spanish Vice-royalty of Río de la Plata was roughly equivalent to modern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
● Buenos Aires; ex “Roitelet de Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 730 (Cistothorus)
● Buenos Aires; ex “Emberise à cinq couleurs” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Plata Bunting” of Latham 1783 (Embernagra).
● Isla La Plata, Manaví, Ecuador (subsp. Mimus longicaudatus).