Black-eared Seedeater

Black-eared Seedeater / Crithagra mennelli

Black-eared Seedeater

Here the details of the Black-eared Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crithagra mennelli
Protonym:  Poliospiza mennelli Bull.Br.Orn.Club 21 p.62
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blesee1
Type Locality:  Tjoko''s Kraal, Shangani River, [Southern] Rhodesia.
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Publish Year:  1908
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.

mennelli
Frederic Philip Mennell (1880-1966) British mineralogist, consultant geologist, founding (1901-1908) Curator of Rhodesia Mus., Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, politician (Crithagra).