Sporaeginthus Formosus Bird

English Name:  Green Avadavat
Latin Name:  Sporaeginthus formosus
Protonym:  Fringilla formosa IndexOrn. 1 p.441
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Sporaeginthus
Taxonomy Code:  grnava1
Type Locality:  India.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1790
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

Sporaeginthus
(syn. Amandava Ϯ Zebra Waxbill S. subflava) Gr. σπορα spora  seed  < σπειρω speirō  to sow; αιγινθος aiginthos  unknown bird, perhaps a finch; "Gen. SPORAEGINTHUS nov. gen. **) Amandave.    837. 1. Sp. subflavus Nob. — Fringilla subflava Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. XXX. p. 575. — id. Encycl. méth. pag. 992. No. 140. — Fringilla sanguinolenta Temm. Pl. col. 221. fig. 2. — Estrelda sanguinolenta Sws. Birds W. Afr. I. p. 190. — Estrelda subflava Gray Gen. B. No. 28. — Amadina sanguinolenta Gray l.c. No. 44. tab. 90. fig. 2. 3.   ...   838. 2. Sp. Amandava Nob. — Fringilla Amandava Lin. Syst. Nat. No. 10. — id. Gm. Syst. Nat. pag. 905. No. 10. — Estrelda Amandava Hartl. Syst. Verz. p. 76. No. 10. — Fringilla mystacea Vieill. jun.? — Estrelda mystacea Gray Gen. B. No. 25.?   ...   **) Von σπορος, Same und αιγινθος, ὁ nom. prop. — Von Habropyga durch den geraden Schnabel und weniger stark stufigen Schwanz verschieden." (Cabanis 1853); "Sporaeginthus Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 170. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 76), Fringilla subflava Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1968, XIV, 348).

formosis / formosum / formosus
L. formosus beautiful  < forma  beauty.