Marsh Seedeater

Marsh Seedeater / Sporophila palustris

Marsh Seedeater

Here the details of the Marsh Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila palustris
Protonym:  Spermophila palustris Bull.NuttallOrn.Club 8 p.92
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  marsee1
Type Locality:  near Conception del Uruguay Entre Rios, Argentina.
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Publish Year:  1883
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos  seed  < σπειρω speirō  to sow; φιλος philos  lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila 1) Cab.  Pyrrhula Tem. part.   Spermophila Swains. 1827.  ...  1σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. AmazonicaCallyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.

paluster / palustrae / palustre / palustris
L. paluster, palustris  marshy  < palus, paludis  swamp, marsh.
● ex “Parus palustris” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Marsh-Titmouse” or “Black-Cap” of Ray 1713, “Black Cap” of Albin 1738, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, dorso cinereo” of Linnaeus 1746 (Poecile).
● ex “Tordo guirahuró” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 64 (syn. Pseudoleistes guirahuro).
● ex “Hirondelle de Marais” or “Brunette” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 246, fig. 2 (syn. Riparia paludicola).