Sporophila Plumbea Bird

Sporophila Plumbea Bird

Sporophila Plumbea Bird

English Name:  Plumbeous Seedeater
Latin Name:  Sporophila plumbea
Protonym:  Fringilla plumbea Beitr.Naturgesch.Brasil. 3 p.579
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  plusee1
Type Locality:  Campo Geral of inner Brazil [= boundary between Bahia and Minas Gerais].
Author:  zu Wied
Publish Year:  1830
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.  ...  1σπορος 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. AmazonicaCallyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.

plumbea
L. plumbeus  leaden, plumbeous, lead-coloured  < plumbum  lead.
● ex “Garza Aplomada” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 347 (syn. Ardea cocoi).
● ex “Spotted-tailed Hobby” of Latham 1781 (Ictinia).
● ex “Todus supra ex plumbeo canus ...” of Pallas 1769, and “Plumbeous Tody” of Latham 1782 (Polioptila).
● ex “Plumbeous Warbler” of Latham 1787 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Plumbeous Seedeater (colombiana)
Latin Name: Sporophila plumbea colombiana
colombiana / colombianum / colombianus / colombica
Colombia.

Plumbeous Seedeater (whiteleyana)
Latin Name: Sporophila plumbea whiteleyana
whiteleyana / whiteleyi / whitelianus
● Henry Whitely, Jr. (1844-1892) English collector in Japan and tropical America (Aulacorhynchus, subsp. Glaucidium cuculoides, subsp. Sporophila plumbea).
● Henry Whitely, Sr. (1817-1898) English taxidermist (syn. Delichon urbicum lagopodum).

Plumbeous Seedeater (plumbea)
Latin Name: Sporophila plumbea plumbea
plumbea
L. plumbeus  leaden, plumbeous, lead-coloured  < plumbum  lead.
● ex “Garza Aplomada” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 347 (syn. Ardea cocoi).
● ex “Spotted-tailed Hobby” of Latham 1781 (Ictinia).
● ex “Todus supra ex plumbeo canus ...” of Pallas 1769, and “Plumbeous Tody” of Latham 1782 (Polioptila).
● ex “Plumbeous Warbler” of Latham 1787 (unident.).