Yellow Canary

Here the details of the Yellow Canary named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crithagra flaviventris
Protonym:  Loxia flaviventris Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.856
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  yelcan1
Type Locality:  Cape of Good Hope; restricted to Berg River, Cape Province by Vincent, 1952, Check List Birds South Africa, p. 114.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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 1^ma, 2^da, 3^tia, et 4^ta 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. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

flaviventer / flaviventre / flaviventris
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Ortolan à ventre jaune du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 664, fig. 2 (Emberiza).
● ex “Petit Râle de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 847 (Hapalocrex).
● ex "Ypacahá ceja blanca" of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 377 (syn. Hapalocrex flaviventer).
● ex “Coucou à ventre rayé de l’Île Panay” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Hierococcyx sparverioides).
● ex “Tachurí vientre amarillo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 171 (Pseudocolopteryx).
● ex “Tangara tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 290, fig. 2 (syn. Tangara mexicana).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow Canary (damarensis)
SCI Name: Crithagra flaviventris damarensis
damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.

Yellow Canary (flaviventris)
SCI Name: Crithagra flaviventris flaviventris
flaviventer / flaviventre / flaviventris
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Ortolan à ventre jaune du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 664, fig. 2 (Emberiza).
● ex “Petit Râle de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 847 (Hapalocrex).
● ex "Ypacahá ceja blanca" of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 377 (syn. Hapalocrex flaviventer).
● ex “Coucou à ventre rayé de l’Île Panay” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Hierococcyx sparverioides).
● ex “Tachurí vientre amarillo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 171 (Pseudocolopteryx).
● ex “Tangara tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 290, fig. 2 (syn. Tangara mexicana).

Yellow Canary (marshalli)
SCI Name: Crithagra flaviventris marshalli
marshalli
● Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall (1871-1959) British entomologist (subsp. Crithagra flaviventris).
● Capt. Prof. Alan John Marshall (1911-1967) Australian Army, zoologist, comparative anatomist, explorer, collector, radio commentator (Cyclopsitta).
● Maj.-Gen. George Frederick Leycester Marshall (1843-1934) British Army in India, Chief Engineer in the Punjab 1892-1897 (subsp. Dendrocopos hyperythrus).
● Prof. Joe Truesdell Marshall, Jr. (1918-2015) US Army, zoologist, parasitologist, ornithologist (Megascops, subsp. Melozone albicollis, subsp. Vireo griseus).

Yellow Canary (guillarmodi)
SCI Name: Crithagra flaviventris guillarmodi
guillarmodi
Charles Frederic Jacot-Guillarmod (1912-1979) South African entomologist, collector (subsp. Crithagra flaviventris).