Black Rosy-Finch

SCI Name:  Leucosticte atrata
Protonym:  Leucosticte atrata Am.Sportsman 4 p.241
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Leucosticte
Taxonomy Code:  bkrfin
Type Locality:  Canon City, Colorado.
Author:  Ridgway
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Endangered

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.

atrata / atratus
L. atratus  clothed in mourning  < ater  black.
● ex “Black Vulture or Carrion Crow” of Bartram 1791 (Coragyps).
● ex “Black Swan” of Phillip 1789 (Cygnus).
● ex “Black Red-tail” of Latham 1783 (?syn. Phoenicurus ochruros).