Yellow-bridled Finch

Here the details of the Yellow-bridled Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melanodera xanthogramma
Protonym:  Chlorospiza(?) xanthogramma Zool.Voy.Beagle[Darwin] pt11 p.96 pl.33
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Melanodera
Taxonomy Code:  yebfin1
Type Locality:  East Falkland Island and Tierra del Fuego.
Author:  Gould & Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELANODERA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ White-bridled Finch M. melanodera) Specific name Emberiza melanodera Quoy & Gaimard, 1824. "983. Melanodera, Bp. (Chlorospiza hinc Emberiza! p. Gr.) Cum Chlorospizis affinitatem praebet!  Amer. merid.   2.    1. CHLOROSPIZA xanthogramma, Gr. nec Blyth.) Emberiza xanthogramma, Gr. Gen. B.) Beagle Voy. t. 33. mas.  ex Terra del Fuego, Ins. Falckland. or.    2. EMBERIZA MELANODERA, Quoy et Gaim. (Chlorospiza hinc Emberiza! melanodera, Gr. — M. typica, Bp.) Beagle, Voy. t. 32. mas et faem. ex Patagonia et Ins. Falckland. or." (Bonaparte 1850); "Melanodera Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Gen. Av., 1 (1850), p. 470. Type, by tautonymy, Emberiza melanodera Quoy and Gaimard." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 108).

melanodera / melanoderus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; δερα dera neck.

xanthogramma
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write.

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-bridled Finch (White-tailed)
SCI Name: Melanodera xanthogramma barrosi
barrosi
Rafael Barros Valenzuela (b. 1890) Chilean naturalist, collector (subsp. Melanodera xanthogramma).

Yellow-bridled Finch (Yellow-tailed)
SCI Name: Melanodera xanthogramma xanthogramma
xanthogramma
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write.