Yellow-throated Serin

Yellow-throated Serin / Crithagra flavigula

Yellow-throated Serin

Here the details of the Yellow-throated Serin named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crithagra flavigula
Protonym:  Serinus flavigula Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 26 p.272
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  yetser1
Type Locality:  Ambokarra, Shoa. (A yellow-throated mutant, based on three specimens.)
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Publish Year:  1888
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.

flavigula
L. flavus  golden-yellow, yellow; gula  throat.
● ex “Petite Perruche à gorge jaune d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 190, fig. 1, and “Toui à gorge jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (syn. Brotogeris jugularis).
● ex “Barbu des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 331, and “Barbu à gorge jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1786 (syn. Megalaima haemacephala).
● ex “Pic à gorge jaune de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 784, “Petit pic à gorge jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Yellow-headed Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (Piculus).