Grassland Yellow-Finch / Sicalis luteola
Grassland Yellow-Finch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Emberiza luteola Mus.Carls. fasc.4 pl.93
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sicalis
Taxonomy Code: gryfin1
Type Locality: no locality ; Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 327, suggests Surinam, but no certain record of the species exists for there.
Author: Sparrman
Publish Year: 1789
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SICALIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Saffron Finch S. flaveola brasiliensis) Gr. σικαλις sikalis, συκαλλις sukallis or συκαλις sukalis, συκαλιδος sukalidos small, black-headed bird, mentioned by Epicharmus, Aristotle, and other authors, not further identified, but perhaps a sort of warbler < συκη sukē fig-tree; Boie probably believed the classical name referred to the yellow buntings Emberiza, hence his bestowal of the generic epithet upon this group of yellow birds; "Die Zweckmäßigkeit, mit diesen gelb gefärbten Arten folgende zu verbinden, aus America: 1. Fringilla magellanica Gm. (dieser Vogel hat in neuerer Zeit wieder 2 neue Namen, icterica Lichst. und campestris Spix, erhalten.) 2. Fr. brasiliensis Gm. ardens Illiger. mexicana Forster. (nach Kuhls Annotation bey Ansicht der Forsterschen Zeichnungen). 3. Fr. lepida Gm. Aus Africa: 4. Fr. butyracea Gm. welche ebenfalls auf Feldern von Sämerenen leben, scheint mir 'sehr problematisch. Wahrscheinlich sind diese Vögel Repräsentanten einer besonderen Gruppe, für welche der Name Sicalis passend seyn würde" (Boie 1828); "Sicalis Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21, col. 324. Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis, in Tschudi, 1846, Unters. Faun. Peru., Aves, p. 215), Emberiza brasiliensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 122).
Var. Siclais, Scialis, Sycalis.
Synon. Gnathospiza, Orospina, Pseudochloris, Pseudosicalis, Serinopsis.
luteola
L. luteolus yellowish < luteus saffron-yellow < lutum saffron (cf. Late Med. L. luteola bird mentioned by Turner 1544, which he associated with the Siskin, but which was questionably linked with the Willow Warbler by Ray 1713).
● ex “Nectarinia luteola” Lichtenstein MS (subsp. Coereba flaveola).
● "109. MOTACILLA Luteola. ... Chryso-bronchites albicilla montanus Tungusicus, vel Chryso-phaeo-bronchites albicilla, Messerschmid. ornith. MS. VI. 1138. 176. Gilt throat Warbler, Latham. syn. IV. p. 459. n. 61." (Pallas 1831) (syn. Ficedula albicilla).
SUBSPECIES
Grassland Yellow-Finch (Northern)
SCI Name: Sicalis luteola [chrysops Group]
SICALIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Saffron Finch S. flaveola brasiliensis) Gr. σικαλις sikalis, συκαλλις sukallis or συκαλις sukalis, συκαλιδος sukalidos small, black-headed bird, mentioned by Epicharmus, Aristotle, and other authors, not further identified, but perhaps a sort of warbler < συκη sukē fig-tree; Boie probably believed the classical name referred to the yellow buntings Emberiza, hence his bestowal of the generic epithet upon this group of yellow birds; "Die Zweckmäßigkeit, mit diesen gelb gefärbten Arten folgende zu verbinden, aus America: 1. Fringilla magellanica Gm. (dieser Vogel hat in neuerer Zeit wieder 2 neue Namen, icterica Lichst. und campestris Spix, erhalten.) 2. Fr. brasiliensis Gm. ardens Illiger. mexicana Forster. (nach Kuhls Annotation bey Ansicht der Forsterschen Zeichnungen). 3. Fr. lepida Gm. Aus Africa: 4. Fr. butyracea Gm. welche ebenfalls auf Feldern von Sämerenen leben, scheint mir 'sehr problematisch. Wahrscheinlich sind diese Vögel Repräsentanten einer besonderen Gruppe, für welche der Name Sicalis passend seyn würde" (Boie 1828); "Sicalis Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21, col. 324. Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis, in Tschudi, 1846, Unters. Faun. Peru., Aves, p. 215), Emberiza brasiliensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 122).
Var. Siclais, Scialis, Sycalis.
Synon. Gnathospiza, Orospina, Pseudochloris, Pseudosicalis, Serinopsis.
Grassland Yellow-Finch (Montane)
SCI Name: Sicalis luteola bogotensis
bogotense / bogotensis
Bogotá (formerly Santa Fé de Bogotá), Colombia. In early ornithology “Bogotá” was used to designate a species of unknown provenance but, from the distinctive way in which the trade-skin had been prepared, presumed to be from the Spanish Main (= Spanish-held Mainland), the hinterland of north-western tropical America.
Grassland Yellow-Finch (Grassland)
SCI Name: Sicalis luteola [luteola Group]
SICALIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Saffron Finch S. flaveola brasiliensis) Gr. σικαλις sikalis, συκαλλις sukallis or συκαλις sukalis, συκαλιδος sukalidos small, black-headed bird, mentioned by Epicharmus, Aristotle, and other authors, not further identified, but perhaps a sort of warbler < συκη sukē fig-tree; Boie probably believed the classical name referred to the yellow buntings Emberiza, hence his bestowal of the generic epithet upon this group of yellow birds; "Die Zweckmäßigkeit, mit diesen gelb gefärbten Arten folgende zu verbinden, aus America: 1. Fringilla magellanica Gm. (dieser Vogel hat in neuerer Zeit wieder 2 neue Namen, icterica Lichst. und campestris Spix, erhalten.) 2. Fr. brasiliensis Gm. ardens Illiger. mexicana Forster. (nach Kuhls Annotation bey Ansicht der Forsterschen Zeichnungen). 3. Fr. lepida Gm. Aus Africa: 4. Fr. butyracea Gm. welche ebenfalls auf Feldern von Sämerenen leben, scheint mir 'sehr problematisch. Wahrscheinlich sind diese Vögel Repräsentanten einer besonderen Gruppe, für welche der Name Sicalis passend seyn würde" (Boie 1828); "Sicalis Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21, col. 324. Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis, in Tschudi, 1846, Unters. Faun. Peru., Aves, p. 215), Emberiza brasiliensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 122).
Var. Siclais, Scialis, Sycalis.
Synon. Gnathospiza, Orospina, Pseudochloris, Pseudosicalis, Serinopsis.
UPPERCASE: current genus
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