Lemon-breasted Seedeater

Lemon-breasted Seedeater / Crithagra citrinipectus

Lemon-breasted Seedeater

Here the details of the Lemon-breasted Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crithagra citrinipectus
Protonym:  Serinus citrinipectus DurbanMus.Novit. 6 p.62
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lebsee1
Type Locality:  near Panda, Inhambane, Sul do Save, southern Portuguese East Africa.
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Publish Year:  1960
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.

citrinipectus
Med. L. citrinus  yellow, citrine  < L. citrus  citron, citrus; L. pectus, pectoris  breast.