Crithagra Striolata Bird

English Name:  Streaky Seedeater
Latin Name:  Crithagra striolata
Protonym:  Pyrrhula striolata NeueWirbelth.Vog. p.99 pl.37 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  strsee1
Type Locality:  Halai and Simen, 8 to 10,000 ft.
Author:  Rüppell
Publish Year:  1840
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CRITHAGRA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Brimstone Canary C. sulphurata) Gr. κριθη krithē  barley; αγρα agra  hunting  < αγρεω agreō  to hunt; "CRITHAGRA.  Rostrum breve, sub-conicum, crassum, integrum; culmine arcuato; tomio curvato.  Alæ subelongatæ; remigibus 1^ma, 2^da, 3^tia, et 4^ta æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, subfurcata. ...  Types. Lox. sulphurata, flaviventris. Lath.  Africa only?" (Swainson 1827); "Crithagra Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 348), Loxia sulphurata Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 208).
Var. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

striolata / striolatus
Mod. L. striolatus  finely striped, lineated  < striola  fine linear marking  < L. stria  furrow.

SUBSPECIES

Streaky Seedeater (striolata)
Latin Name: Crithagra striolata striolata
striolata / striolatus
Mod. L. striolatus  finely striped, lineated  < striola  fine linear marking  < L. stria  furrow.

Streaky Seedeater (graueri)
Latin Name: Crithagra striolata graueri
graueri
Rudolf Grauer (1871-1927) Austrian ornithologist, collector in tropical Africa 1904-1911 (subsp. Asio abyssinicus, Bradypterus, Ceblepyris, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, subsp. Cinnyris stuhlmanni, subsp. Crithagra striolata, subsp. Dyaphorophyia ansorgei, syn. Estrilda atricapilla kandti, subsp. Euschistospiza cinereovinacea, subsp. Geokichla camaronensis, syn. Otus senegalensis, subsp. Phyllastrephus flavostriatus, syn. Ploceus cucullatus, syn. Polyboroides typus, subsp. Prinia subflava, Pseudocalyptomena, subsp. Turdus pelios).