Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow

Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow / Melozone kieneri

Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow

Here the details of the Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melozone kieneri
Protonym:  Pyrgisoma kieneri Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.486 ydP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rcgspa1
Type Locality:  'ex Am. occ.''; restricted to San Bias, Nayarit, by van Rossem, 1934, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77, p. 423.
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Publish Year:  1850
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DEFINITIONS

MELOZONE
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Prevost's Ground Sparrow M. biarcuata) Gr. μηλον mēlon  cheek; ζωνη zōnē  girdle, belt. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXIX, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae genuinae, includes a variety of heavy-billed birds and shows the distinctive face pattern of this finch; "XXIX. Melozone *) RCHB.  Nat. Syst. t. LXXIX. Gürtelwange.  Von voriger Gattung [Amadina] durch dünneren (ploceus- oder finkenartigen) Schnabel und seicht doppelbogig quer abgeschnittenen Schwanz unterschieden. — Hier nur möglicher Verwechselung wegen aufgeführt, gehört nämlich unter die Tanagrinen und ist um ein Jahr später von Mr. PUCHERAN und BONAPARTE consp. 486. n. 1012. Pyrgisoma genannt worden.   109. M. biarcuata (Pyrgita — NÉBOUX. Moineau à double croissant. Venus pl. 6.  Melozone biarcuata RCHB.  Pyrgisoma — PUCHERAN. BP.    ... *) το μηλον, ου, die Wange,  ἡ ζωνη, ης, Gürtel, Bogen." (Reichenbach 1862); "Melozone Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 79 [, fig. 10]. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 731), Pyrgita biarcuata Prévost and Des Murs." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 180).
Var. MeloxoneMolozone.
Synon. Kieneria, Melanzona, Meloxene, Pyrgisoma.

kieneri
Louis-Charles Kiener (1799-1881) French zoologist, conchologist (Kieneria, syn. Ocreatus underwoodi).

SUBSPECIES

Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow (grisior)
SCI Name: Melozone kieneri grisior
grisior
Mod. L. grisior, grisioris  more grey  < comp. Med. L. griseum  grey.

Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow (kieneri)
SCI Name: Melozone kieneri kieneri
kieneri
Louis-Charles Kiener (1799-1881) French zoologist, conchologist (Kieneria, syn. Ocreatus underwoodi).

Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow (rubricata)
SCI Name: Melozone kieneri rubricata
rubricata / rubricatum / rubricatus
L. rubricatus  red-ochred, ruddy  < rubrica  red-ochre  < ruber, rubra  red, ruddy.
● ex “Sénégali rouge” of Vieillot 1805 (Lagonosticta).
● ex “Ruddy Warbler” of Latham 1801 (syn. Origma solitaria).