Spizella Pallida Bird

Spizella Pallida Bird

Spizella Pallida Bird

English Name:  Clay-colored Sparrow
Latin Name:  Spizella pallida
Protonym:  Emberiza pallida FaunaBor.-Am.[Swainson&Richardson] 2(1831) p.251
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Spizella
Taxonomy Code:  clcspa
Type Locality:  Carlton House, Saskatchewan.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SPIZELLA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Field Sparrow S. pusilla) Dim. < Gr. σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "FIELD SPARROW.  FRINGILLA PUSILLA.  ...  THIS is the smallest of all our Sparrows, and in Pennsylvania is generally migratory.  ...  It is more frequently found in the middle of fields and orchards than any of the other species, which usually lurk along hedge rows." (A. Wilson 1810); "3. Spizella, Nob.  (typ. Fr. pusilla, Wils.)" (Bonaparte 1831).
Synon. Spinites.

pallida
L. pallidus  pallid, pale, wan, sallow  < pallere  to be pale.