Asian Rosy-Finch

SCI Name:  Leucosticte arctoa
Protonym:  Passer arctous Zoogr.Rosso-Asiat. 2 p.21
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Leucosticte
Taxonomy Code:  asrfin1
Type Locality:  Yenisei River and eastern Siberia; restricted to Russian Altai by Kozlova, 1934, Ibis, p. 293.
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1811
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.

arctoa
L. arctous  northern  < Gr. αρκτωος arktōos  northern  < αρκτος arktos  north.

SUBSPECIES

Asian Rosy-Finch (arctoa)
SCI Name: Leucosticte arctoa arctoa
arctoa
L. arctous  northern  < Gr. αρκτωος arktōos  northern  < αρκτος arktos  north.

Asian Rosy-Finch (cognata)
SCI Name: Leucosticte arctoa cognata
cognata / cognatus
L. cognatus  related, connected, similar  < nasci, natus  to be born.

Asian Rosy-Finch (sushkini)
SCI Name: Leucosticte arctoa sushkini
sushkini
Prof. Dr Petr Petrovich Sushkin (1868-1928) Russian zoologist, palaeontologist (syn. Alauda arvensis kiborti, syn. Emberiza aureola, subsp. Leucosticte arctoa, syn. Linaria flavirostris miniakensis, subsp. Numenius arquata, syn. Prunella fulvescens khamensis (ex Prunella fulvescens tibetana Sushkin, 1925), syn. Rubicilla rubicilla kobdensis).

Asian Rosy-Finch (gigliolii)
SCI Name: Leucosticte arctoa gigliolii
gigliolii
Prof. Dr. Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (1845-1909) Italian zoologist (syn. Emberiza cioides castaneiceps, subsp. Leucosticte arctoa, artefact Mellisuga mellivora x Chrysolampis mosquitus).

Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha)
SCI Name: Leucosticte arctoa brunneonucha
brunneonucha
Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown; Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.