Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow

SCI Name:  Peucaea sumichrasti
Protonym:  Haemophila sumichrasti Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 10(1874) p.6
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Peucaea
Taxonomy Code:  citspa1
Type Locality:  Tuchitan [= Juchitan], Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Author:  Lawrence
Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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).

sumichrasti
Adrien Louis Jean François Sumichrast (1828-1882) Swiss field naturalist, collector, resident in Mexico 1855-1882 (subsp. Amazilia beryllina, subsp. Aphelocoma californica, subsp. Arremonops rufivirgatus, syn. Cyanocompsa parellina indigotica, syn. Cyrtonyx ocellatus, syn. Dives dives, Hylorchilus, syn. Nyctidromus albicollis yucatanensis, subsp. Pachyramphus aglaiae, Peucaea, subsp. Trogon citreolus).