Blue-faced Parrotfinch

SCI Name:  Erythrura trichroa
Protonym:  Fringilla trichroa Mem.Acad.Imp.Sci.St.Petersb. 2 p.8 pl.10
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Erythrura
Taxonomy Code:  blfpar3
Type Locality:  Ualan [= Kusaie] , Caroline Islands.
Author:  von Kittlitz
Publish Year:  1833
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ERYTHRURA
(Estrildidae; † Pin-tailed Parrotfinch E. prasina) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ουρα oura  tail; excepting E. hyperythra and E. kleinschmidti, all male parrotfinches have bright red rumps and tails; "Erythura, Sw.  Bill thick, lengthened, resembling that of Euplectes. Tail very long, acuminated.   E. viridis. Pl. Col. 96." (Swainson 1837); "Erythrura Swainson, 1837, Class. Birds, 2, p. 280 (originally misspelled Erythura, but universally emended).  Type, by monotypy, Erythrura viridis Temminck, 1835, Pl. Col., livr. 96 = Loxia prasina Sparrman." (Mayr in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 362). 
Var. Erythura (original spelling).   
Synon. Acalanthe, Acmura, Amblynura, Chloromunia, Chlorura, Erythrina, Lobiospiza, Lobospingus, Poedela, Reichenowia, Rhamphostruthus, Trichroa.

erythrura / erythruros / erythrurus
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; -ουρος -ouros -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

trichroa
Gr. τρι- tri-  three-, thrice  < τρεις treis  three; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour, appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.
● ex “Tangara varié à teste bleue de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760, “Tangara varié à tête bleue de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 33, fig. 2, and “Tanagra tricolor var B” of J. Gmelin 1789 (syn. Tangara cyanocephala).

Trichroa
(syn. Erythrura Ϯ Blue-faced Parrotfinch E. trichroa) Specific name Fringilla trichroa von Kittlitz, 1835; "A small and virtually all deep green finch with red or reddish-brown tail and deep violet-blue forehead and face." (Clement et al. 1993); "XXVII. Erythrura SWAINSON Classif. 280.  RCHB. Syst. nat. t. LXXVI.   ...   a. Trichroa: Schwanz schmal, nur keilförmig.    98. E. trichroa (Fringilla — v. KITTLITZ Vögel von Luzon. Mém. Acad. St. Petersb. II. 1835. S. t. 10.)  BP. consp. 457. 4.  HARTLAUB Proc. 1858. 461. 2." (Reichenbach 1862); "Trichroa Reichenbach, 1862-63, Singvögel, p. 33. Type, by tautonymy, Fringilla trichroa Kittlitz." (Mayr in Peters 1968, XIV, 363).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (sanfordi)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa sanfordi
sanfordi
Dr Leonard Cutler Sanford (1868-1950) US zoologist, Trustee of AMNH, organised Whitney-Sanford South Pacific expeditions, sponsor of AMNH Mt Hagen Expedition (subsp. Archboldia papuensis, subsp. Asio flammeus, syn. Cinnyrorhyncha longirostra, subsp. Crateroscelis robusta, Cyornis, Diomedea, subsp. Erythrura trichroa, Haliaeetus, subsp. Lagopus muta, subsp. Micrathene whitneyi, subsp. Mino kreffti, subsp. Myzomela cardinalis, subsp. Pachycephala orioloides, syn. Perisoreus canadensis nigricapillus, subsp. Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus, syn. Rhamphomantis megarhynchus).

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (modesta)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa modesta
modesta / modestum / modestus
L. modestus  plain, modest, unassuming  < modus  measure, standard.

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (pinaiae)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa pinaiae
pinaiae
Gūnūng Pinaia (= Mt. Binaiya), Ceram, Moluccas.

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (sigillifer)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa sigillifer
sigillifer / sigillifera
L. sigilla  image, mark  < dim. signum  mark, sign; -fera  -bearing  < ferre  to carry.

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (macgillivrayi)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi
macgillivraii / macgillivrayi
● William MacGillivray (1796-1852) Scottish ornithologist, author (subsp. Ammospiza maritima, syn. Geothlypis tolmiei).
● Alexander Sykes Macgillivray (1853-1907) Australian cattle rancher, field naturalist (subsp. Barnardius zonarius).
● Dr William David Kerr MacGillivray (1867-1933) Australian physician, naturalist, oologist (syn. Calamanthus campestris, syn. Cinnyris jugularis frenatus, subsp. Eclectus roratus, syn. Erythrura trichroa sigillifer, syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi maclennani, subsp. Malurus coronatus, syn. Neochmia temporalis minor, syn. Ninox boobook ocellata, Pachyptila, subsp. Probosciger aterrimus, ‡syn. Rhipidura cervina).
● John MacGillivray (1821-1867) Scottish naturalist, collector in the South Pacific and Australia (subsp. Megapodius reinwardt, Pseudobulweria, subsp. Zosterops flavifrons).

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (eichhorni)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa eichhorni
eichhorni
Albert Frederic Eichhorn (d. 1931) Australian farmer, gold-miner, collector in New Guinea, the Bismarcks, and Solomon Is. (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, subsp. Aerodramus spodiopygius, subsp. Alopecoenas johannae, subsp. Erythrura trichroa, subsp. Leptocoma aspasia, Myiagra, Myzomela, subsp. Ninox jacquinoti, Philemon, subsp. Zoothera heinei, subsp. Zosterops griseotinctus).

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (pelewensis)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa pelewensis
pelewensis
Pelew / Palau / Belau Is., Micronesia.

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (clara)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa clara
clara
L. clarus  distinct, clear.
● Clara Stein (fl. 1944) taxidermist, wife of German zoologist Dr Georg H. W. Stein (subsp. Eulacestoma nigropectus, syn. Gennaeodryas placens).

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (trichroa)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa trichroa
trichroa
Gr. τρι- tri-  three-, thrice  < τρεις treis  three; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour, appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.
● ex “Tangara varié à teste bleue de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760, “Tangara varié à tête bleue de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 33, fig. 2, and “Tanagra tricolor var B” of J. Gmelin 1789 (syn. Tangara cyanocephala).

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (woodfordi)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa woodfordi
woodfordi
Charles Morris Woodford (1853-1927) British naturalist, Resident Commissioner in the Solomons Protectorate 1896-1914 (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, Corvus, subsp. Erythrura trichroa, Hypotaenidia, Ixobrychus).

Blue-faced Parrotfinch (cyanofrons)
SCI Name: Erythrura trichroa cyanofrons
cyanofrons
L. cyanos  lapis lazuli  < Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; frons, frontis  brow, forehead.