Paramo Seedeater

Here the details of the Paramo Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Catamenia homochroa
Protonym:  Catamenia homochroa Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1858) (1858), Pt26 no.381 p.552
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Catamenia
Taxonomy Code:  parsee1
Type Locality:  Matos, ca. 15 miles north Riobamba, Ecuador.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CATAMENIA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Band-tailed Seedeater C. analis) Gr. καταμηνια katamēnia  menstrual, menstruous  < κατα kata  in relation to; μην mēn, μηνος mēnos  month; "subtus rufo-olivacea, ano rufo" (de La Fresnaye 1843); "*1022. Catamenia, Bp. (Fringilla, p. Gr. - Linaria! p. Lafr.  Amer. mer.   2.    1. LINARIA analis, Lafr. mas. (inornata? Lafr. faem. - Fringilla analis, mas et inornata, faem. Gr. sp. 43. et 73.) Orb. Voy. Am. m. t. 48. 1. Mus. Paris. ex Bolivia.  Plumbea, subtus dilutior; dorso rufo induto: crisso castaneo: alis caudaque nigris  ...   2. LINARIA analoides, Lafr. (Fringilla anatoides! Gr.) Rev. Zool. 1847. p. 75. Mus. Paris. ex Peru, Lima.  Similis praecedenti; sed minor, magis plumbea, crisso rufo dilutiore" (Bonaparte 1850); "Catamenia Bonaparte, 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 493. Type, by subsequent designation, G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 78, Linaria analis d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 152).
Var. Catamentia.
Synon. Duncanula, Idiospiza.

homochroa / homochrous
Gr. ὁμοχρους homokhrous  uniform, of one colour  < ὁμος homos  common  < ὁμως homōs  alike; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour, appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

SUBSPECIES

Paramo Seedeater (oreophila)
SCI Name: Catamenia homochroa oreophila
oreophila
Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain; φιλος philos  loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

Paramo Seedeater (homochroa)
SCI Name: Catamenia homochroa homochroa
homochroa / homochrous
Gr. ὁμοχρους homokhrous  uniform, of one colour  < ὁμος homos  common  < ὁμως homōs  alike; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour, appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.

Paramo Seedeater (duncani)
SCI Name: Catamenia homochroa duncani
duncani
Duncan Vavasour McConnell (b. 1908) son of English collector Frederick Vavasour McConnell (subsp. Catamenia homochroa, syn. Coturnicops notatus, syn. Myiodynastes solitarius).