Emblema Pictum Bird

Emblema Pictum Bird

Emblema Pictum Bird

English Name:  Painted Firetail
Latin Name:  Emblema pictum
Protonym:  Emblema picta BirdsAustr. pt7 p.?
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Emblema
Taxonomy Code:  paifir1
Type Locality:  Depuch''s Island, Mid-West Australia.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1842
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EMBLEMA
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Painted Firetail E. pictum) L. emblema, emblematis  inlaid or mosaic work  < Gr. εμβλημα emblēma, εμβληματος emblēmatos  insertion, embossed ornament, mosaic  < εμβαλλω emballō  to insert; "Genus EMBLEMA.  Rostrum fere quam caput longum, conicum(ut in genere Ploceus).  Alæ mediocres; remige prima parvula, quatuor proximis inter se æqualibus; tertiariis elongatis.  Cauda mediocris, et fere quadrata, vel paululum rotundata.  Pedes plantigradi, digitis gracillimis; digito intermedio externis longiore, illis inter se æqualibus.    EMBLEMA PICTA. Emb. facie et gula saturate miniaceis; vertice et corpore supra fuscis; pectore et corpore subtus nigris crebre alboguttatis, abdomine medio miniaceo adsperso." (Gould 1842); "Emblema Gould, 1842, Birds Australia, pt. 7 (also Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 10, p. 17). Type, by monotypy, E. picta Gould. Not preoccupied by the nomenclaturally unavailable Emblema Deshayes 1840" (Mayr in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 353).   
Synon. Cayleyna.

pictum
L. pictus  painted  < pingere  to paint.