Double-barred Finch / Taeniopygia bichenovii

Double-barred Finch / Taeniopygia bichenovii

Double-barred Finch

SCI Name:  Taeniopygia bichenovii
Protonym:  Fringilla Bichenovii Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 15(1826) p.258
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae /
Taxonomy Code:  dobfin1
Type Locality:  Shoalwater Bay and Broad Sound, southern Queensland.
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Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

TAENIOPYGIA
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Australian Zebra Finch T. castanotis) Gr. ταινια tainia  band; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump; "rump white; upper tail-coverts jet black, each feather having three large and conspicuous oval spots of white" (Gould 1865); "XIX. Taeniopygia RCHB. Bänderschwanzfink.  Schnabel dick, kaum länger, als hoch und breit, Firste rechtwinkelig in die Stirn tretend, spitzewärts verschmälert, Schneiden gerade.  Schwingen 1=4 gleichlang und längste.  Schwanzfedern fast gleichlang, nur die mittleren ein wenig länger, Oberschwanzdecken gebändert und den Schwanz fast bedeckend.   ...   67-69. T. castanotis (Amadina — the chestunt [sic] eared Finch GOULD proc. IV. 1836. 105. Synops. I.  B. of Austral. III. 87.) RCHB. Vögel Neuholl. n. 136. Der braunwangige Bänderschwanzfink.  ...  69b. T. guttata (Loxia — le Bengali monchété [sic] VIEILLOT Ois. chant. 21. pl. III." (Reichenbach 1863); "Taeniopygia Reichenbach, 1862-63, Singvögel, p. 26. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1890, Cat. Birds Brit.Mus., 13, p. 311), Amadina castanotis Gould." (Mayr in Peters 1968, XIV, 357).
Synon. Bichenoa, Steganopleura, Stictoptera, Stizoptera.

bichenoii / bichenovii
James Ebenezer Bicheno (1785-1851) English barrister, Colonial Secretary for Tasmania 1842-1851, botanist (Taeniopygia).

SUBSPECIES

Double-barred Finch (annulosa)
SCI Name: Taeniopygia bichenovii annulosa
annulosa
Med. L. annulosus  annular, ring-shaped, marked with rings  < L. anulus  ring.

Double-barred Finch (bichenovii)
SCI Name: Taeniopygia bichenovii bichenovii
bichenoii / bichenovii
James Ebenezer Bicheno (1785-1851) English barrister, Colonial Secretary for Tasmania 1842-1851, botanist (Taeniopygia).