Leucosticte Tephrocotis Bird

English Name:  Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Latin Name:  Leucosticte tephrocotis
Protonym:  Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis FaunaBor.-Am.[Swainson&Richardson] 2(1831) p.265
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Leucosticte
Taxonomy Code:  gcrfin
Type Locality:  on the Saskatchewan ; type from near Carlton House, Saskatchewan, fide Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 262.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LEUCOSTICTE
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Grey-crowned Rosy Finch L. tephrocotis) Gr. λευκοστικτος leukostiktos  white-speckled, grizzled  < λευκος leukos  white; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo; "[79.] 1. LINARIA (LEUCOSTICTE) TEPHROCOTIS. (Swainson.)  Grey-crowned Linnet.   SUB-FAMILY, Coccothraustinæ, SWAINS.  Genus, Linaria, AUCT.  Sub-genus, Leucosticte, Sw.   CH. SP.  LINARIA (Leucosticte) TEPHROCOTIS, castanea, vertice nigrescenti, occipite cinereo-albescenti, tectricibus alarum minoribus tectricibusquæ caudæ et hypochondriis apicibus roseis.  ...  This new and striking species, of which only a single specimen was obtained, is obviously an aberrant form in the genus Linaria; but as we know not, at present, the remaining types, its more immediate affinities must remain unexplained. The vertical breadth of the bill and the arched commissure bring it into comparison with the Bullfinches." (Swainson 1831); "Leucosticte Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., 2 (1831), p. 265. Type, by monotypy, Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson." (Howell in Peters 1968, XIV, 257).  
Var. Tephrocotis.
Synon. Fringalauda, Hypolia.

leucosticte / leucostictos / leucostictus
Gr. λευκοστικτος leukostiktos  white-speckled, white-spotted  < λευκος leukos  white; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

tephrocotis
Gr. τεφρος tephros  ash-coloured  < τεφρα tephra  ashes; κοτις kotis  nape (cf. κοττις kottis  head).

LEUCOSTICTE
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Grey-crowned Rosy Finch L. tephrocotis) Gr. λευκοστικτος leukostiktos  white-speckled, grizzled  < λευκος leukos  white; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo; "[79.] 1. LINARIA (LEUCOSTICTE) TEPHROCOTIS. (Swainson.)  Grey-crowned Linnet.   SUB-FAMILY, Coccothraustinæ, SWAINS.  Genus, Linaria, AUCT.  Sub-genus, Leucosticte, Sw.   CH. SP.  LINARIA (Leucosticte) TEPHROCOTIS, castanea, vertice nigrescenti, occipite cinereo-albescenti, tectricibus alarum minoribus tectricibusquæ caudæ et hypochondriis apicibus roseis.  ...  This new and striking species, of which only a single specimen was obtained, is obviously an aberrant form in the genus Linaria; but as we know not, at present, the remaining types, its more immediate affinities must remain unexplained. The vertical breadth of the bill and the arched commissure bring it into comparison with the Bullfinches." (Swainson 1831); "Leucosticte Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., 2 (1831), p. 265. Type, by monotypy, Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson." (Howell in Peters 1968, XIV, 257).  
Var. Tephrocotis.
Synon. Fringalauda, Hypolia.

Tephrocotis
(Fringillidae; syn. Leucosticte † Grey-crowned Rosy Finch L. tephrocotis) Specific name Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson, 1832; "222. Gray-crowned Leucosticte.  (Leucosticte tephrocotis.)   ...   223. Hepburn's Leucosticte.  "Gray crowned Finch."  Tephrocotis littoralis." (J. Fannin, 1891, Check List of British Columbia Birds, pp. 34-35).  A lapsus for Leucosticte, the author or printer becoming confused over the change of page and style, but listed here because of the disparate etymology.

SUBSPECIES

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Pribilof Is.)
Latin Name: Leucosticte tephrocotis umbrina
umbrina
Mod. L. umbrinus  dark, shady, umber-colour  < L. umbra  shade, dark.

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Aleutian and Kodiak Is.)
Latin Name: Leucosticte tephrocotis griseonucha
griseonucha / griseonuchus
Med. L. griseum  grey; nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Hepburn's)
Latin Name: Leucosticte tephrocotis littoralis
littorale / littoralis
L. litoralis  littoral, of the shore  < litus, litoris  shore, beach.

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Gray-crowned)
Latin Name: Leucosticte tephrocotis [tephrocotis Group]
LEUCOSTICTE
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Grey-crowned Rosy Finch L. tephrocotis) Gr. λευκοστικτος leukostiktos  white-speckled, grizzled  < λευκος leukos  white; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo; "[79.] 1. LINARIA (LEUCOSTICTE) TEPHROCOTIS. (Swainson.)  Grey-crowned Linnet.   SUB-FAMILY, Coccothraustinæ, SWAINS.  Genus, Linaria, AUCT.  Sub-genus, Leucosticte, Sw.   CH. SP.  LINARIA (Leucosticte) TEPHROCOTIS, castanea, vertice nigrescenti, occipite cinereo-albescenti, tectricibus alarum minoribus tectricibusquæ caudæ et hypochondriis apicibus roseis.  ...  This new and striking species, of which only a single specimen was obtained, is obviously an aberrant form in the genus Linaria; but as we know not, at present, the remaining types, its more immediate affinities must remain unexplained. The vertical breadth of the bill and the arched commissure bring it into comparison with the Bullfinches." (Swainson 1831); "Leucosticte Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., 2 (1831), p. 265. Type, by monotypy, Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson." (Howell in Peters 1968, XIV, 257).  
Var. Tephrocotis.
Synon. Fringalauda, Hypolia.