Corsican Finch

Here the details of the Corsican Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Carduelis corsicana
Protonym:  Citrinella corsicana Orn.Monatsb. 7 p.120
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Carduelis
Taxonomy Code:  corfin1
Type Locality:  Corsica.
Author:  Koenig, AF
Publish Year:  1899
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CARDUELIS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ European Goldfinch C. carduelis) L. carduelis  goldfinch  < carduus or cardus  thistle; "Genus Carduelis.  Le genre du Chardonneret.  ...  Les Chardonnerets volent en troupe. On les voit en hiver sur les têtes de chardons, dont ils mangent les graines." (Brisson 1760): based on "Carduelis" of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, and numerous other authors, "Aurivittis" of Gessner 1555 and Charleton 1668, "Zena" of Belon 1555, "Cardello" of Olina 1622, "Chrysomitris" of Charleton 1668, "Astragalinus" of Rzaczynski 1721, and "Carduelis vulgaris" of Linnaeus 1748; "Carduelis Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 1, p. 36; 3, p. 53. Type, by tautonymy, "Carduelis" = Fringilla carduelis Linnaeus." (Howell & Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 234).
Var. Cardulis, Cardvelis, Cardualis.
Synon. Chloroptyla, Citrinella.

carduelis
L. carduelis  goldfinch  < carduus or cardus  thistle; ex “Carduelis” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, Jonston 1653, and Willughby 1676, “Gold-Finch” or “Thistle-Finch” of Ray 1713, and “Fringilla remigibus antrorsum luteis: extima immaculata, rectricibus duabus extimis medio reliquisque apice albis” of Linnaeus 1746 (Carduelis).

corsicana / corsicanus
L. Corsicanus  Corsican  < Corsica or Corsis, Corsidis  Corsica.