Black-faced Canary

SCI Name:  Crithagra capistrata
Protonym:  Crithagra capistrata Vog.Ost.-Afr.[Finsch & Hartlaub] p.458
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  blfcan1
Type Locality:  Golungo Alto, 1,800-2,800 ft., Angola.
Author:  Finsch
Publish Year:  1870
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

capistrata
L. capistratus  haltered  < capistrum  halter, band  < capere  to hold.

SUBSPECIES

Black-faced Canary (capistrata)
SCI Name: Crithagra capistrata capistrata
capistrata
L. capistratus  haltered  < capistrum  halter, band  < capere  to hold.

Black-faced Canary (hildegardae)
SCI Name: Crithagra capistrata hildegardae
hildegardae
● Hildegard Maria Heinrich née Burovna (1917-2012) Polish collector in Angola, second wife of Gerhardt 'Gerd' H. Heinrich (subsp. Crithagra capistrata, syn. Pseudoalcippe abyssinica).
● Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde née Ginsburg (1871-1959) British author, in the Congo and Kenya with her husband Dr Sidney Langford Hinde 1891-1915 (syn. Phyllolais pulchella).