Southern Grosbeak-Canary
Southern Grosbeak-Canary
Here the details of the Southern Grosbeak-Canary named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Serinus buchanani Bull.Br.Orn.Club 39 p.50
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code: sougrc1
Type Locality: Maktan, [near Voi,] British East Africa.
Author: Hartert, E
Publish Year: 1919
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.
buchanani
● Buchanan I., Northern Territory, Australia (syn. Egretta sacra, syn. Rhipidura phasiana).
● Dr Francis Buchanan later known as Francis Hamilton, Francis Hamilton Buchanan or Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829) Scottish surgeon in the East India Company 1794-1815, geographer, zoologist, botanist, explorer, collector in Nepal and India (Emberiza, Prinia).
● Capt. Angus Buchanan (1886-1954) Scottish explorer, naturalist, collector in the Sahara 1919-1922 (subsp. Argya fulva, Crithagra, subsp. Gymnoris dentata, subsp. Lybius vieilloti, syn. Myrmecocichla aethiops, subsp. Ptyonoprogne obsoleta).
● Buchanan Inlet, Melville I., Northern Territory, Australia (syn. Pachycephala lanioides fretorum).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
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)