Reichard’s Seedeater

Reichard\'s Seedeater / Crithagra reichardi

Reichard's Seedeater

Here the details of the Reichard's Seedeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crithagra reichardi
Protonym:  Poliospiza reichardi J.Orn. 30 p.209
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  reisee1
Type Locality:  Kakoma, near Tabora, Tanganyika.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1882
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.

reichardi
Paul Reichard (1845-1938) German engineer, geographer, collector in East Africa 1880-1884 (Crithagra, Ploceus).

SUBSPECIES

Reichard's Seedeater (Stripe-breasted)
SCI Name: Crithagra reichardi striatipectus
striatipecta / striatipectus
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; pectus, pectoris  breast.

Reichard's Seedeater (Reichard's)
SCI Name: Crithagra reichardi reichardi
reichardi
Paul Reichard (1845-1938) German engineer, geographer, collector in East Africa 1880-1884 (Crithagra, Ploceus).