Cassin's Sparrow

SCI Name:  Peucaea cassinii
Protonym:  Zonotrichia cassinii Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 6 p.60
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Peucaea
Taxonomy Code:  casspa
Type Locality:  near San Antonio, Texas.
Author:  Woodhouse
Publish Year:  1852
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PEUCAEA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Bachman's Sparrow P. aestivalis bachmani) Gr. πευκη peukē pine-tree; "GENUS VI.  PEUCÆA, AUD.  PINEWOOD-FINCH.   Bill of moderate length, rather stout, straight, considerably compressed, acute; upper mandible with the dorsal line somewhat convex, the ridge rather narrow, the sides convex, the edges inflected, with the notches obsolete, the tip acute; lower mandible with the angle short and rounded, the dorsal line ascending and slightly convex, the ridge rounded, the sides convex, the edges involute, the tip acute. Nostrils small, roundish, partially concealed by the plumage.  ...  Name from Πευκη, a pine.   176. 1. Peucæa Bachmanii, AUD.  Bachman's Pinewood-Finch.   ...   177. 2. Peucæa Lincolnii, AUD.  Lincoln's Pinewood-Finch." (Audubon 1839); "Peucaea Audubon, Syn. Bds. N. Amer., p. 112, 1839—type, by subs. desig. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., p. 60, 1841), Peucaea bachmanii Audubon." (Hellmayr 1938, XIII, 516).

cassinii
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist (syn. Archilochus alexandri, syn. Asio flammeus, syn. Branta canadensis minima, Haemorhous, Leptotila, Mitrospingus, syn. Numenius arquata, Peucaea, syn. Phaethornis longirostris cephalus, syn. Ptychoramphus aleuticus, subsp. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, syn. Sterna hirundinacea, syn. Tyrannus vociferans, Vireo) (see cassini).