Hooded Munia

SCI Name:  Lonchura spectabilis
Protonym:  Donacicola spectabilis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 p.449 pl.37 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Lonchura
Taxonomy Code:  hoomun1
Type Locality:  New Britain.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1879
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LONCHURA
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Scaly-breasted Munia L. punctulata) Gr. λογχη lonkhē  spear-head, lance; ουρα oura  tail; "Genus LONCHURA. Rostrum forte, breve, latum, altitudine ad basin longitudinem æquans; mandibulis integris, superiori in frontem angulariter extendente cumque eo circuli arcum formante.  Alæ mediocres, subacuminatæ; remigibus, 1ma brevissima subspuria, 2da 3tia 4taque fere æqualibus longissimis.  Cauda gradata, lanceolata; rectricibus mediis cæteras paullo longitudine superantibus.  Pedes mediocres, subgraciles.   The peculiar spear-head form of the tail, and the ridge of the upper mandible and the forehead, forming a segment of the same circle, together with the habits of the following species, afford sufficient characteristics to justify their separation from the genus Fringilla of M. Temminck. The Gros-bec longicone of the Pl. Col. 96. (Emb. quadricolor, Lath.) belongs to the same group.   109. Lonchura nisoria. Fringilla nisoria, Temm. Gros-bec épervin. Pl. Col. 500. Fig. 2.  ...  110. LONCHURA CHEET.  ...  111. Lonchura leuconota. Fringilla leuconota, Temm. Gros-bec leuconote, Pl. Col. 500, fig. 1." (Sykes 1832); "Lonchura Sykes, 1832, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 94. Type, by original designation, Fringilla nisoria Temminck = Loxia punctulata Linnaeus. Not preoccupied by Lonchurus Bloch, 1793 (Pisces)." (Paynter in Peters 1968, XIV, 372 (erroneous typification)); "LONCHURA Sykes, 1832 F - Fringilla nisoria Sykes, 1832; type by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1890, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 13, p. 326). = Loxia punctulata Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 297).
Synon. Dermophrys, Diacmura, Donacola, Maia, Mayrimunia, Munia, Oryzivora, Oryzornis, Oxycerca, Padda, Trichogrammoptila, Uroloncha, Weebongia.

spectabilis
L. spectabilis  remarkable, showy  < spectare  to observe  < specere  to look at.
● "61. ANAS.  ...  spectabilis.  4. A. rostro basi gibbo compresso: carina pennacea nigra, capite canescente. Mus. Ad. Fr. 2. p.  Anas canadensis, capite griseo cæruleo. Edw. av. 154. t. 154.  Habitat in Canada, Svecia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Somateria).

SUBSPECIES

Hooded Munia (wahgiensis)
SCI Name: Lonchura spectabilis wahgiensis
wahgiensis
Wahgi River, Papua New Guinea.

Hooded Munia (gajduseki)
SCI Name: Lonchura spectabilis gajduseki
gajduseki
Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008) US physician, medical researcher in New Guinea, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 (syn. Lonchura spectabilis wahgiensis).

Hooded Munia (mayri)
SCI Name: Lonchura spectabilis mayri
mayri
Dr Ernst Walter Mayr (1904-2005) German evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, systematist (syn. Aerodramus hirundinaceus, subsp. Amblyornis macgregoriae, subsp. Athene brama, syn. Burhinus oedicnemus indicus, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, syn. Cinclosoma castanotum, subsp. Culicicapa helianthea, subsp. Ficedula westermanni, subsp. Lewinia pectoralis, subsp. Lonchura spectabilis, subsp. Megalaima virens, syn. Mixornis gularis rubicapilla, subsp. Mulleripicus funebris, syn. Phonygammus keraudrenii purpureoviolaceus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, Ptiloprora, subsp. Ptilorrhoa leucosticta, Rallicula, syn. Rhinortha chlorophaea, subsp. Roraimia adusta, subsp. Sarcophanops steerii, subsp. Tregellasia leucops, subsp. Trugon terrestris, subsp. Turnix maculosus, subsp. Zapornia pusilla).

Hooded Munia (sepikensis)
SCI Name: Lonchura spectabilis sepikensis
sepik / sepikensis / sepikiana
Sepik River, Sepik District, New Guinea.

Hooded Munia (spectabilis)
SCI Name: Lonchura spectabilis spectabilis
spectabilis
L. spectabilis  remarkable, showy  < spectare  to observe  < specere  to look at.
● "61. ANAS.  ...  spectabilis.  4. A. rostro basi gibbo compresso: carina pennacea nigra, capite canescente. Mus. Ad. Fr. 2. p.  Anas canadensis, capite griseo cæruleo. Edw. av. 154. t. 154.  Habitat in Canada, Svecia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Somateria).