Great-billed Seed-Finch

SCI Name:  Sporophila maximiliani
Protonym:  Oryzoborus maximiliani Mus.Hein. 1(1850) p.151,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code:  gbsfin1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos  seed  < σπειρω speirō  to sow; φιλος philos  lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila ¹) Cab.  Pyrrhula Tem. part.   Spermophila Swains. 1827.  ...  ¹) σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. Amazonica, Callyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.

maximiliani
● Maximilian I Joseph Count-Palatine of Zweibrücken Prince-Elector and King of Bavaria (1756-1825; reigned 1799-1825) (syn. Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus).
● Maj.-Gen. Maximilian Alexander Philipp Graf zu Wied-Neuwied and Prinz zu Wied (1782-1867) Prussian Army, collector, explorer in Brazil 1815-1817 and North America 1832-1834 (syn. Conopophaga melanops, syn. Laniocera hypopyrra, Melanopareia, ‡syn. Neomorphus geoffroyi (Laurent Raty in litt.), subsp. Pitangus sulphuratus, Pionus, syn. Riparia riparia, Sporophila (ex Fringilla crassirostris zu Wied, 1830), syn. Thraupis cyanocephala).
● Maximilian Josèph Eugéne Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817-1852) 3rd Duke of Leuchtenburg, 3rd Prince of Eichstätt, and Prince Romanovsky, husband to Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of Russia (?syn. Trochilus sp.)

SUBSPECIES

Great-billed Seed-Finch (parkesi)
SCI Name: Sporophila maximiliani parkesi
parkesi
Dr Kenneth Carroll Parkes (1922-2007) US ornithologist, taxonomist, collector in Mexico, Argentina and Philippines, Curator of Carnegie Mus., Pittsburgh 1962 (subsp. Buarremon brunneinuchus, syn. Chrysococcyx flavigularis, subsp. Ixos philippinus, subsp. Mulleripicus funebris, subsp. Saltator aurantiirostris, subsp. Setophaga petechia, subsp. Sporophila maximiliani, subsp. Vireo huttoni, subsp. Zosterops montanus).

Great-billed Seed-Finch (maximiliani)
SCI Name: Sporophila maximiliani maximiliani
maximiliani
● Maximilian I Joseph Count-Palatine of Zweibrücken Prince-Elector and King of Bavaria (1756-1825; reigned 1799-1825) (syn. Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus).
● Maj.-Gen. Maximilian Alexander Philipp Graf zu Wied-Neuwied and Prinz zu Wied (1782-1867) Prussian Army, collector, explorer in Brazil 1815-1817 and North America 1832-1834 (syn. Conopophaga melanops, syn. Laniocera hypopyrra, Melanopareia, ‡syn. Neomorphus geoffroyi (Laurent Raty in litt.), subsp. Pitangus sulphuratus, Pionus, syn. Riparia riparia, Sporophila (ex Fringilla crassirostris zu Wied, 1830), syn. Thraupis cyanocephala).
● Maximilian Josèph Eugéne Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817-1852) 3rd Duke of Leuchtenburg, 3rd Prince of Eichstätt, and Prince Romanovsky, husband to Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of Russia (?syn. Trochilus sp.)