Thick-billed Seed-Finch

Thick-billed Seed-Finch / Sporophila funerea

Thick-billed Seed-Finch

Here the details of the Thick-billed Seed-Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila funerea
Protonym:  Oryzoborus funereus Proc.Zool.Soc.London["1859"] Pt(27)3 ["1859"] Pt(27)3 p.379
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tbsfin1
Type Locality:  Suchapam, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1860
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos  seed  < σπειρω speirō  to sow; φιλος philos  lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila 1) Cab.  Pyrrhula Tem. part.   Spermophila Swains. 1827.  ...  1σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. AmazonicaCallyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.

funerea / funereus / funeria
L. funereus  funereal, ill-omened  < funus, funeris  funeral (e.g. black or dark coloured, as if in mourning).
● "42. STRIX.  ...  funerea.  7. S. capite lævi, corpore fusco, iridibus flavis. Fn. svec. 51.  Ulula flammeata. Frisch. av. t. 98?  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Aegolius).
● ex “Black Linnet” of Edwards 1764 (Vidua).