White-throated Canary

White-throated Canary / Crithagra albogularis

White-throated Canary

Here the details of the White-throated Canary named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crithagra albogularis
Protonym:  Crithagra albogularis S.Afr.Q.J.(2) -2 p.48
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whtcan1
Type Locality:  South Africa ; restricted to Widow Smit''s farm near northern extremity of Piquetberg, by Roberts, 1936, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 18, p. 315.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1833
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CRITHAGRA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Brimstone Canary C. sulphurata) Gr. κριθη krithē  barley; αγρα agra  hunting  < αγρεω agreō  to hunt; "CRITHAGRA.  Rostrum breve, sub-conicum, crassum, integrum; culmine arcuato; tomio curvato.  Alæ subelongatæ; remigibus 1ma, 2da, 3tia, et 4ta æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, subfurcata. ...  Types. Lox. sulphurata, flaviventris. Lath.  Africa only?" (Swainson 1827); "Crithagra Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 348), Loxia sulphurata Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 208).
Var. ChrithagraGrithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.

SUBSPECIES

White-throated Canary (crocopygia)
SCI Name: Crithagra albogularis crocopygia
crocopygia / crocopygius
Gr. κροκος krokos  saffron, yellow; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

White-throated Canary (sordahlae)
SCI Name: Crithagra albogularis sordahlae
sordahlae
Margaret G. Froiland Sordahl (1906-1995) US biologist, collector in Namaqualand 1929-1931, wife of astronomer Louis O. Sordahl (subsp. Crithagra albogularis).

White-throated Canary (albogularis)
SCI Name: Crithagra albogularis albogularis
albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.

White-throated Canary (orangensis)
SCI Name: Crithagra albogularis orangensis
orangensis
Orange Free State (= Free State Province), South Africa.