Brewer’s Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Here the details of the Brewer's Sparrow named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Spizella breweri Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 8 p.40
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Spizella
Taxonomy Code: brespa
Type Locality: western North America, California, and New Mexico ; type from Black Hills, North Dakota, fide Stone, 1899, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 30.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1856
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPIZELLA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Field Sparrow S. pusilla) Dim. < Gr. σπιζα spiza finch < σπιζω spizō to chirp; "FIELD SPARROW. FRINGILLA PUSILLA. ... THIS is the smallest of all our Sparrows, and in Pennsylvania is generally migratory. ... It is more frequently found in the middle of fields and orchards than any of the other species, which usually lurk along hedge rows." (A. Wilson 1810); "3. Spizella, Nob. (typ. Fr. pusilla, Wils.)" (Bonaparte 1831).
Synon. Spinites.
breweri
● Dr Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880) US politician, newspaper editor, oologist (syn. Anas platyrhynchos x Anas strepera, syn. Euphagus cyanocephalus, Merops, Spizella).
● Charles Brewer-Carías (b. 1938) Venezuelan dentist, anthropologist, explorer (subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).
SUBSPECIES
Brewer's Sparrow (breweri)
SCI Name: Spizella breweri breweri
breweri
● Dr Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880) US politician, newspaper editor, oologist (syn. Anas platyrhynchos x Anas strepera, syn. Euphagus cyanocephalus, Merops, Spizella).
● Charles Brewer-Carías (b. 1938) Venezuelan dentist, anthropologist, explorer (subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).
Brewer's Sparrow (Timberline)
SCI Name: Spizella breweri taverneri
taverneri
Percy Algernon Taverner (1875-1947) Canadian ornithologist (syn. Haemorhous purpureus, subsp. Spizella breweri).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)