Red-and-black Grosbeak

Here the details of the Red-and-black Grosbeak named bird below:

SCI Name:  Periporphyrus erythromelas
Protonym:  Loxia erythromelas Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.859
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Periporphyrus
Taxonomy Code:  rabgro1
Type Locality:  Cayenne.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

periporphyrus
Gr. περι peri  exceedingly; πορφυρεος porphureos  dark red (cf. πορφυρα porphura  purple).

Periporphyrus
(syn. Caryothraustes Ϯ Red-and-black Grosbeak C. erythromelas) Gr. περι peri  exceedingly; πορφυρεος porphureos  dark red. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVII, labelled Passerinae: Fringillinae Tanagrinae, shows a variety of thin-billed tanagers and heavy-billed finches, including this grosbeak. "Periporphyrus, Reichenb. 1850. (Pitylus, p. Gr.)  ... LOXIA erythromelas, Gm.  ... Fusco-ruber; subtus et in cervice ruberrimus; capite, colloque antice nigris" (Bonaparte 1850); "Periporphyrus Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 77. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 75), Loxia erythromelas Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 226).

erythromela / erythromelaena / erythromelana / erythromelas
Gr. ερυθρομελας eruthromelas, ερυθρομελαινα eruthromelaina  blackish-red, red and black  < ερυθρος eruthros  red; μελας melas, μελαινα  melaina  black.
● ex "Black-headed Grosbeak" of Latham 1785 (Caryothraustes)
● ex “Garza roxa y negra” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 360 (subsp. Ixobrychus exilis).
● ex Tanagra rubra Linnaeus, 1766 (syn. Piranga olivacea).