Rhodospiza Obsoleta Bird

English Name:  Desert Finch
Latin Name:  Rhodospiza obsoleta
Protonym:  Fringilla obsoleta ReisevonOrenburgBuchara[Eversmann] p.132
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Rhodospiza
Taxonomy Code:  desfin2
Type Locality:  Kara-ata spring, near Bokhara [reference not verified].
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

RHODOSPIZA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Desert Finch R. obsoleta) Gr. ῥοδον  rhodon  rose; σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "Identification  ...  flight-feathers mostly black with pronounced white edgings and pink panel on coverts and base of secondaries  ...  flight pattern above shows white primary patch with rose-pink on secondaries and greater coverts." (Hollom et al. 1988); "c'". Bill stout, and like that of a Grosbeak.  ...  b⁴. No culminal ridge; angles of the culmen and gonys about equal.  35. RHODOSPIZA, p. 282.   ...   35. RHODOSPIZA.  Erythrospiza, auct. recent. (nec Bp.).  ...  1. Rhodospiza obsoleta.  Fringilla obsoleta, Licht. in Eversm. Reis., Anhang, p. 132 (1823)." (Sharpe 1888); "Rhodospiza Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. [169 (in key),] 282. Type, by monotypy, Fringilla obsoleta Lichtenstein." (Paynter in Peters 1968, XIV, 263).
Var. Rhosdospina, Rhodospina (Gr. σπινος spinos  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp).

obsoleta / obsoletum / obsoletus
L. obsoletus  plain, worn out, forgotten  < obsolescere  to wear out.
● ex “Plain Falcon” of Pennant 1785 (syn. Falco rusticolus).