Black-chested Sparrow
Black-chested Sparrow
Here the details of the Black-chested Sparrow named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Haemophila humeralis Mus.Hein. 1(1850) p.132
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Peucaea
Taxonomy Code: blcspa1
Type Locality: Mexico ; restricted to Tehotepec, Puebla, by Miller, Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore, 1957, Pacific Coast Avifauna (Cooper Ornith. Soc), no. 33, p. 371.
Author: Cabanis
Publish Year: 1851
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PEUCAEA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Bachman's Sparrow P. aestivalis bachmani) Gr. πευκη peukē pine-tree; "GENUS VI. PEUCÆA, AUD. PINEWOOD-FINCH. Bill of moderate length, rather stout, straight, considerably compressed, acute; upper mandible with the dorsal line somewhat convex, the ridge rather narrow, the sides convex, the edges inflected, with the notches obsolete, the tip acute; lower mandible with the angle short and rounded, the dorsal line ascending and slightly convex, the ridge rounded, the sides convex, the edges involute, the tip acute. Nostrils small, roundish, partially concealed by the plumage. ... Name from Πευκη, a pine. 176. 1. Peucæa Bachmanii, AUD. Bachman's Pinewood-Finch. ... 177. 2. Peucæa Lincolnii, AUD. Lincoln's Pinewood-Finch." (Audubon 1839); "Peucaea Audubon, Syn. Bds. N. Amer., p. 112, 1839—type, by subs. desig. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., p. 60, 1841), Peucaea bachmanii Audubon." (Hellmayr 1938, XIII, 516).
humeralis
Late L. humeralis of the shoulders < L. umerus shoulders.
● ex “Perruche Banks” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Lathamus discolor).
● ex “Fringilla humeralis” of Lichtenstein MS (Peucaea).
● ex “Waalia Pigeon” of Bruce 1790 (syn. Treron waalia).
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)