Chestnut-throated Seedeater

Chestnut-throated Seedeater / Sporophila telasco

Chestnut-throated Seedeater

Here the details of the Chestnut-throated Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sporophila telasco
Protonym:  Pyrrhula telasco Voy.Coq. 1 pl.15 fig.3 1830 Voy.Coq.Zool. p.663
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  chtsee1
Type Locality:  vicinity of Lima, Peru.
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Publish Year:  1828
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DEFINITIONS

SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos  seed  < σπειρω speirō  to sow; φιλος philos  lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila 1) Cab.  Pyrrhula Tem. part.   Spermophila Swains. 1827.  ...  1σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. AmazonicaCallyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.

telasco
Telasco, an Inca warrior in Jean François Marmontel’s novel ‘Les Incas, ou la destruction de l’Empire du Pérou’, 1777 (Sporophila).