Crithagra Leucopygia Bird

English Name:  White-rumped Seedeater
Latin Name:  Crithagra leucopygia
Protonym:  Crithagra leucopygia Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.127
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  whrsee
Type Locality:  Sennar (by inference).
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
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 1^ma, 2^da, 3^tia, et 4^ta 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. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

leucopygia / leucopygialis / leucopygius
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

Leucopygia
(syn. Cypsnagra Ϯ White-rumped Tanager C. hirundinacea) Gr. λευκος leukos  white; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump; "Leucopygia, Sw.  Bill entire, neiother mandible being notched; somewhat sledner, much compressed. Commissure slightly or not at all sinuated. Rictus smooth. Nostrils naked. Wings moderate. Tail rounded. Feet very strong. Lateral toes equal. Claws fully curved.   L. ruficollis. Part. 5. No. 97" (Swainson 1837).

SUBSPECIES

White-rumped Seedeater (riggenbachi)
Latin Name: Crithagra leucopygia riggenbachi
riggenbachi
Fritz Wilhelm Riggenbach (1864-1944) Swiss collector in north-west Africa and tropical West Africa (syn. Accipiter badius, syn. Campethera punctuligera, subsp. Crithagra leucopygia, subsp. Galerida cristata, subsp. Indicator minor, subsp. Oenanthe leucura, subsp. Phalacrocorax aristotelis, syn. Salpornis salvadori emini).

White-rumped Seedeater (leucopygia)
Latin Name: Crithagra leucopygia leucopygia
leucopygia / leucopygialis / leucopygius
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.