Eurasian Linnet

SCI Name:  Linaria cannabina
Protonym:  Fringilla cannabina Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.182
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Linaria
Taxonomy Code:  eurlin1
Type Locality:  Europe ; restricted to Sweden by Hartert, 1903, Vogel pal. Fauna, p. 73.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LINARIA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Common Linnet L. cannabina) Late Med. L. linaria  linnet  < L. linarius  belonging to flax  < linum  flax; "Mit im Umfange rundem, kurzem und kurzzugespitztem Schnabel.  Die Nahrung bloß öhlige Sämereyen. (Linaria.)  7. Hanffink (Hänfling: F. cannabina et Linota, Linn.)" (Bechstein 1802); "54. SIZERIN, Linaria. Fringilla, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec très-court, couvert à la base de petites plumes décomposées et dirigées en avant, droit, grêle et aigu à la pointe.—Mandibule inférieure à bords bidentés vers l'origine.  Esp. Sizerin, Buff." (Vieillot 1816).
Synon. Acanthis, Agriospiza, Cannabia, Cannabina, Linophaga, Linota, Pseudacanthis, Sizeris, Warsanglia.
● (syn. Passerina Ϯ Indigo Bunting P. cyanea) Late Med. L. linaria  linnet; "‡Linaria ciris; the painted finch, or nonpareil.  *L. cyanea; the blue linnet.   ...   Linaria ciris (emberiza ciris Linn.) or painted finch, or nonpareil of Catesby, is not seen North of Cape Fear, in North Carolina, and seldom ten miles from the sea coast, or perhaps twenty or thirty miles, near the banks of great river   ...   Linaria cyanea (tanagra Linn.) the blue linnet, is supposed by some to be the nonpareil, in an early stage of life, not being yet arrived to his brilliancy and variety of colours; but this is certainly a mistake, for the blue linnet is longer and of a slenderer configuration, and their notes more variable, vehement and sonorous." (Bartram 1792); "Linaria BARTRAM, Travels through Carolina, etc., 1791. p. — (London ed., 1792, pp. 289, 297)  ...  Type, Tanagra cyanea LINNAEUS.  (Present designation.)" (Richmond 1917).

linaria
Late Med. L. linaria  linnet  < L. linarius  linen-weaver, belonging to flax  < linum  flax.
● "98. FRINGILLA.  ...  Linaria.  23. F. remigibus rectricibusque fuscis margine obsolete pallido, litura alarum albida. Fn. svec. 210.  Linaria rubra. Gesn. av. 591. Aldr. orn. l. 18. c. 9. Will. orn. 191. Raj. av. 91. n. 3. Alb. av. 3. p. 70. t. 75. Frisch. av. t. 10. f. 3. 4.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Acanthis flammea).

cannabina / cannabinus
L. cannabinus  hempen  < Gr. κανναβινος kannabinos  hempen  < κανναβις kannabis  hemp, cannabis; "98. FRINGILLA.  ...  cannabina.  22. F. remigibus primoribus rectricibusque nigris utroque margine albis. Fn. svec. 209.  Linaria rubra major. Will. orn. 191. t. 46. Raj. av. 90. n. 2. Alb. av. 3. p. 68. t. 72. 73. Frisch. av. 2. t. 9. f. 1. 2.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Linaria).

Cannabina
(Fringillidae; syn. Linaria † Common Linnet L. cannabina) Gr. κανναβινος kannabinos  of hemp, hempen < κανναβις kannabis  hemp, cannabis; "Hänfling.  Cannabina, Brehm.   ...   1) Der Fichtenbluthänfling. Cannabina pinetorum, Br. (Fringilla cannabina, Linn.   ...   2) Der Buschbluthänfling. Cannabina arbustorum, Br. (Fr. cannabina, Linn.   ...   1) Der Berghänfling. Cannabina montium, Br. (Fr. flavirostris, Linn.)   ...   2) Der gelbschnäblige Hänfling. Cannabina flavirostris, Br. (Fr. flavirostris, Linn.   ...   3) Der mittlere Berghänfling. Cannabina media, Br. (Fr. flavirostris, Linn.)" (Brehm 1831); "Cannabina C. Brehm, 1831, Handbuch Naturgesch. Vögel Deutschlands, p. 275.  Type, by tautonymy, Fringilla cannabina Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Canabina.

SUBSPECIES

Eurasian Linnet (autochthona)
SCI Name: Linaria cannabina autochthona
autochthona
Gr. αυτοχθων autokhthōn, αυτοχθονος autokhthonos  native, indigene.

Eurasian Linnet (nana)
SCI Name: Linaria cannabina nana
nana
L. nanus  dwarf  < Gr. νανος nanos  dwarf.
● ex “Petit Marteau” of Sganzin 1840 (Lepidopygia).

Eurasian Linnet (meadewaldoi)
SCI Name: Linaria cannabina meadewaldoi
meadewaldoi
Edmund Gustavus Bloomfield Meade-Waldo (1855-1934) English explorer, ornithologist, collector (‡Haematopus, subsp. Linaria cannabina).

Eurasian Linnet (harterti)
SCI Name: Linaria cannabina harterti
harterti / hartertiana / hartertianus
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (1859-1933) German ornithologist, collector, Curator of Rothschild Mus., Tring (syn. Acestrura berlepschi, subsp. Acrocephalus australis, subsp. Alauda arvensis, syn. Aplonis opaca kurodai, subsp. Arses telescopthalmus, syn. Artamus leucoryn leucopygialis, Asthenes, Batrachostomus, syn. Brachypteryx leucophrys carolinae, subsp. Burhinus oedicnemus, subsp. Buteo buteo, Camaroptera, subsp. Campylorhynchus albobrunneus, syn. Certhia brachydactyla, subsp. Chalcites lucidus, syn. Chlorocichla simplex, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, subsp. Circus aeruginosus, syn. Cisticola juncidis, syn. Columba delegorguei sharpei, subsp. Crypturellus soui, syn. Cyanistes caeruleus ogliastrae, syn. Cyornis unicolor cyanopolia, subsp. Dendrocopos major, subsp. Dicrurus macrocercus, syn. Dryobates minor colchicus, syn. Dyaphorophyia concreta graueri, subsp. Emberiza schoeniclus, syn. Entomyzon cyanotis, syn. Eophona migratoria sowerbyi, subsp. Eudynamys scolopaceus, subsp. Eumyias panayensis, syn. Eurostopodus argus, Eurylaimus, syn. Falco peregrinus calidus, Ficedula, subsp. Fringilla coelebs, syn. Galerida theklae ruficolor, syn. Geospiza fuliginosa, subsp. Heleia superciliaris, subsp. Hemiprocne longipennis, syn. Hieraaetus pennatus, syn. Hypsipetes amaurotis stejnegeri, syn. Icterus icterus, subsp. Illadopsis turdina, syn. Jynx torquilla sarudnyi, syn. Lagonosticta nitidula, subsp. Linaria cannabina, syn. Lullula arborea pallida, subsp. Machaerirhynchus nigripectus, subsp. Malacocincla sepiaria, subsp. Melanorectes nigrescens, syn. Metallura tyrianthina oreopola, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Monarcha cinerascens, subsp. Mulleripicus pulverulentus, syn. Myiozetetes cayanensis hellmayri, subsp. Myrmecocichla arnotti, subsp. Myzomela obscura, syn. Ochrospiza dorsostriata maculicollis, syn. Onychognathus fulgidus hartlaubii, syn. Phylloscopus orientalis, syn. Phylloscopus reguloides assamensis, Phlogophilus, syn. Picoides kizuki matsudairai, subsp. Picumnus olivaceus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Pnoepyga pusilla, syn. Poephila personata, subsp. Prionops caniceps, subsp. Psittacella brehmii, syn. Pternistis afer cranchii, syn. Pycnonotus barbatus tricolor, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri, syn. Rhipidura rufifrons granti, subsp. Rhodinocichla rosea, syn. Rhyticeros plicatus, syn. Scotocerca inquieta, subsp. Sericornis frontalis, syn. Sitta europaea roseilia, syn. Strix aluco nivicola, syn. Sturnus vulgaris porphyronotus, Tarphonomus, subsp. Terpsiphone viridis, Thapsinillas, syn. Treron curvirostra, syn. Vanellus miles, syn. Yuhina flavicollis rouxi, subsp. Zosterops citrinella, syn. Zosterops japonicus simplex).

Eurasian Linnet (mediterranea)
SCI Name: Linaria cannabina mediterranea
mediterranea / mediterraneus
Late L. Mediterraneum mare  Mediterranean Sea  < L. mediterraneus  midland  < medius  middle; terra  land.

Eurasian Linnet (cannabina)
SCI Name: Linaria cannabina cannabina
cannabina / cannabinus
L. cannabinus  hempen  < Gr. κανναβινος kannabinos  hempen  < κανναβις kannabis  hemp, cannabis; "98. FRINGILLA.  ...  cannabina.  22. F. remigibus primoribus rectricibusque nigris utroque margine albis. Fn. svec. 209.  Linaria rubra major. Will. orn. 191. t. 46. Raj. av. 90. n. 2. Alb. av. 3. p. 68. t. 72. 73. Frisch. av. 2. t. 9. f. 1. 2.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Linaria).

Eurasian Linnet (bella)
SCI Name: Linaria cannabina bella
bella
L. bellus  pretty, charming  < benus old form of bonus  good.
● ex “Black-lined Grosbeak” of Latham 1801 (Stagonopleura).