Rusty-browed Warbling-Finch

Here the details of the Rusty-browed Warbling-Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Microspingus erythrophrys
Protonym:  Poospiza erythrophrys Ibis p.599 pl.17 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Microspingus
Taxonomy Code:  rbwfin2
Type Locality:  Sierra de Totoral, Catamarca, Argentina.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1881
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MICROSPINGUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Three-striped Hemispingus M. trifasciatus) Gr. μικρος mikros  small; genus Chlorospingus Cabanis, 1851, chlorospingus (cf. σπιγγος spingos  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp); "MICROSPINGUS, n. g.   Ce genre sera intermédiaire entre les Nemosia et Chlorospingus; l'oiseau pour lequel je le propose a la bec aussi mince que les espèces du premier de ces genres, mais plus court, et ressemblant plus par sa forme générale à ceux du second.  En général il a les formes plus sveltes que les Chlorospingus, un pareil mode de coloration, la queue plus longue, à rectrices égales, excepté les externes, qui sont plus courtes que les autres, les ailes plus longues et moins obtuses à 3^e, 4^e, et 5^e remiges les plus longues et presque égales entre elles.   5. MICROSPINGUS TRIFASCIATUS, Jelski, in litt.  (Plate XIX. fig. 1.)  ...  Il ressemble le plus à Chlorospingus castaneicollis, Sclater, mais il a le bec beaucoup plus mince." (Taczanowski 1874); "Microspingus Taczanowski, 1874, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 132. Type, by monotypy, Microspingus trifasciatus Taczanowski." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 263).

erythrophrys / erythrophryx
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow.

Erythrophrys
(Cuculidae; syn. Coccyzus † Yellow-billed Cuckoo C. americanus) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow; note that the adult Yellow-billed Cuckoo has a yellow orbital ring, and that of the Black-billed Cuckoo C. erythrophthalmus is red; "ERYTHROPHRYS, Sw.   Bill as in Oxylophus; head not crested; nostrils oval; wings lengthened, pointed, extending beyond the tail covers, the third quill longest, the second much shorter than the fourth; tarsi moderate, naked.  Inhabit the new world, and rear their own young.   Type.— Cuculus Carolinensis, Wilson, iv. 23. f.1" (Swainson 1837); "Erythrophrys Swainson, 1837, Mag. Zool. Botany, I (1836-1837) (5), p. 436.  Type, by original designation, Cuculus carolinensis A. Wilson, 1811 = Cuculus americanus Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Erythrophis, Erythrophys.

SUBSPECIES

Rusty-browed Warbling-Finch (cochabambae)
SCI Name: Microspingus erythrophrys cochabambae
cochabambae
Cochabamba Dept., Bolivia (named after an indigenous people, the Kochapampa, a tribe of the Aymaras).

Rusty-browed Warbling-Finch (erythrophrys)
SCI Name: Microspingus erythrophrys erythrophrys
erythrophrys / erythrophryx
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow.