Abert’s Towhee
Abert's Towhee
Here the details of the Abert's Towhee named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pipilo aberti Explor.GreatSaltLakeUtah[Baird&Stansbury] p.325
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Melozone
Taxonomy Code: abetow
Type Locality: 'New Mexico''; restricted to vicinity of Gila Bend, Maricopa County, Arizona, by Phillips, 1962, Anal. Inst. Biol. Mexico, 33, p. 366.
Author: Baird, SF
Publish Year: 1852
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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. Meloxone, Molozone.
Synon. Kieneria, Melanzona, Meloxene, Pyrgisoma.
aberti
Lt.-Col. James William Abert (1820-1897) US Army, engineer, naturalist, explorer and artist (syn. Anas fulvigula, syn. Anas wyvilliana, Melozone).
SUBSPECIES
Abert's Towhee (aberti)
SCI Name: Melozone aberti aberti
aberti
Lt.-Col. James William Abert (1820-1897) US Army, engineer, naturalist, explorer and artist (syn. Anas fulvigula, syn. Anas wyvilliana, Melozone).
Abert's Towhee (dumeticola)
SCI Name: Melozone aberti dumeticola
dumeticola / dumeticolus
Mod. L. dumeticola dwelling in thickets < L. dumetum, dumeti thicket < dumus, dumi thorn-bush; -cola -dweller < colere to inhabit.
Abert's Towhee (vorhiesi)
SCI Name: Melozone aberti vorhiesi
vorhiesi
Dr Charles Taylor Vorhies (1879-1949) US zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist (syn. Melozone aberti dumeticolus, syn. Troglodytes aedon cahooni).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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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)