Sporophila Lineola Bird

English Name:  Lined Seedeater
Latin Name:  Sporophila lineola
Protonym:  Loxia lineola Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.174
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  linsee1
Type Locality:  Asia ; error, emended to Surinam by Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 26; further emended to Bahia, Brazil, by de Schauensee, 1952, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 104, p. 177.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos  seed  < σπειρω speirō  to sow; φιλος philos  lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila ¹) Cab.  Pyrrhula Tem. part.   Spermophila Swains. 1827.  ...  ¹) σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. Amazonica, Callyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.

lineola
L. lineola  little line  < dim. linea  line  < linum  thread  < Gr. λινον linon  flax, thread.
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  Lineola.  18. L. nigra, linea frontali temporibusque albis.  Habitat in Asia.  Corpus Magnitudine Pari; supra nigrum, e cæruleo nitidum; subtus album. Rostrum nigrum, gibbum. Linea a fronte ad verticem ducta alba. Macula alba supra maxilla superiore. Remiges nigræ: Primores basi anteriore albæ, unde macula alarum alba. Cauda nigra, bifurcata." (Linnaeus 1758) (Sporophila).