Crithagra Koliensis Bird

Crithagra Koliensis Bird

Crithagra Koliensis Bird

English Name:  Papyrus Canary
Latin Name:  Crithagra koliensis
Protonym:  Serinus capistratus koliensis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 72 p.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  papcan1
Type Locality:  Onyulu''s, KoH River, Lango, Uganda.
Author:  Grant & Mackworth-Praed
Publish Year:  1952
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

koliensis
Koli River, Lango, Uganda.