Lesser Antillean Bullfinch

SCI Name:  Loxigilla noctis
Protonym:  Fringilla noctis Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.320
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Loxigilla
Taxonomy Code:  leabul1
Type Locality:  Jamaica, Mexico, and Martinique.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LOXIGILLA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Lesser Antillean Bullfinch L. noctis) Portmanteau of genera Loxia Linnaeus, 1758, crossbill, and Fringilla Linnaeus, 1758, finch; "X.^e Sous-genre. Les SÉNÉGALIS; Loxigilla.  Bec conique, fort, à base large, court. La queue égale ou cunéiforme.  1.^re Race. Les JACARINIS.  Bec robuste, à mandibule supérieure légèrement bombée. Queue moyenne, presque égale ou peu fourchue.  1.º  Le PÈRE NOIR; Fringilla noctis, Gm.; Enl., 201, fig. 1.  De la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe.   2.º La LINOTTE JACARINI; Fringilla nitens, Gm. (var.); et Tanagra Jacarini, Gm.  ...  3.º Le COMBA-SOU; Fringilla nitens, Gm.  ...  4.º Le BEAU MARQUET; Fringilla elegans, Gm.  ...  5.º Le SÉNÉGALI A FRONT POINTILLÉ; Loxia frontalis, L.  ...  6.º Le MINISTRE; Fringilla cyanea, Wils.  ...  7.º Le WEBONG; Loxia bella, Lath.  ...  8.º Fringilla Lathami, Vig. et Horsf., ou Red-diamant-bird des colons de Sidney à la Nouvelle-Galles du sud.  9.º Fringilla temporalis, Vig. et Horsf.  ...  10.º Fringilla Bichenowii, Vig. et Horsf." (Lesson 1831); "Loxigilla Lesson, 1831, Traité Ornith., p. 443. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 74), Fringilla noctis Linnaeus." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 157).
Synon. Nyctithraupis, Scotospiza.

noctis
L. nox, noctis  night (i.e. black).
● ex “Black Sparrow” of Sloane 1725, and “Père Noir” of Brisson 1760 (Loxigilla).

SUBSPECIES

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (coryi)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis coryi
coryi
Charles Barney Cory (1857-1921) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (Asthenes, subsp. Chordeiles nacunda, syn. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Geothlypis rostrata, subsp. Loxigilla noctis, subsp. Phaenicophilus poliocephalus, subsp. Rallus crepitans, syn. Sula sula, syn. Tiaris olivacea, subsp. Turdus rubripes).

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (ridgwayi)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis ridgwayi
ridgway / ridgwayi
Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) US ornithologist, Smithsonian Curator of Birds 1880-1929 (Aegolius, syn. Amazona leucocephala, subsp. Anous stolidus, Antrostomus, subsp. Arremonops rufivirgatus, Baeolophus, syn. Basileuterus culicivorus, Buteo, subsp. Buteogallus urubitinga, subsp. Camptostoma imberbe, subsp. Certhidea fusca, subsp. Chasiempis sandwichensis, subsp. Cochlearius cochlearius, subsp. Colinus virginianus, Cotinga, subsp. Cyanocitta stelleri, subsp. Dendrocincla fuliginosa, syn. Dendrocolaptes certhia concolor, syn. Dryobates scalaris parvus, subsp. Fregata minor, subsp. Geothlypis poliocephala, Glaucidium, subsp. Icterus icterus, subsp. Jacamerops aureus, subsp. Lagopus muta, subsp. Leiothlypis ruficapilla (ex Helmithophaga ruficapilla gutturalis Ridgway, 1874), subsp. Loxigilla noctis, syn. Megascops trichopsis, subsp. Myiobius atricaudus, Nesotriccus, subsp. Pandion haliaetus, syn. Passerella iliaca insularis, subsp. Pheugopedius coraya, Plegadis, subsp. Psarocolius wagleri, subsp. Scardafella squammata, Stelgidopteryx, Thalurania, subsp. Thryorchilus browni, subsp. Xenops genibarbis).

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (desiradensis)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis desiradensis
desiradensis
La Désirade I., near Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles.

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (dominicana)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis dominicana
dominicana
Dominican, Jacobin, or Black Friars, in allusion to their black and white habits or robes.
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  Dominicana.  6. L. nigra, capite gulaque coccineis, pectore abdomine remigumque margine albis. Chin. Lagerstr. 14.  Rubicilla americana. Will. orn. 180. Raj. av. 86.  Cardinalis dominicanus. Edw. av. 127. t. 127.  Gviralivica. Marcgr. bras. 211.  Habitat in Brasilia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Paroaria).
● ex “Merle dominicain des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl.627, fig. 2 (syn. Sturnia philippensis).
● ex “Dominican Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Sturnia sturnina).
● Dominica, Lesser Antilles (subsp. Loxigilla noctis).

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (noctis)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis noctis
noctis
L. nox, noctis  night (i.e. black).
● ex “Black Sparrow” of Sloane 1725, and “Père Noir” of Brisson 1760 (Loxigilla).

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (sclateri)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis sclateri
sclateri
● Dr Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) English ornithologist, collector (subsp. Apalis cinerea, subsp. Asthenes wyatti, subsp. Attila spadiceus, Cacicus, syn. Campephilus gayaquilensis, subsp. Camptostoma obsoletum, syn. Casuarius casuarius, subsp. Cercomacra cinerascens, subsp. Chaetura cinereiventris, Chasiempis, subsp. Colinus leucopogon, syn. Crax fasciolata, syn. Cyanocorax affinis, Doliornis, Eudyptes, Euphonia (ex Bonaparte MS), subsp. Forpus modestus, subsp. Guttera verreauxi, syn. Heliomaster longirostris, subsp. Hirundinea ferruginea, subsp. Icterus pustulatus, Knipolegus, Lophophorus, Loriculus, subsp. Loxigilla noctis, Meliarchus, subsp. Monasa morphoeus, subsp. Myiarchus oberi, Myrmotherula, Myzomela, Nonnula, syn. Penelope barbata, subsp. Penelope montagnii, syn. Penelope obscura, Pheugopedius, Phyllomyias, Picumnus, syn. Pipreola chlorolepidota, syn. Plectropterus gambensis, Poecile, Pseudocolopteryx, syn. Rufirallus fasciatus, syn. Spinus magellanicus capitalis, subsp. Tachycineta euchrysea, subsp. Tangara aurulenta, syn. Tangara cabanisi, syn. Thamnophilus amazonicus, syn. Thraupis episcopus nesophilus, subsp. Thripadectes virgaticeps, subsp. Todirostrum cinereum, subsp. Tolmomyias poliocephalus, Vireo, subsp. Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus).
● William Lutley Sclater (1863-1944) English ornithologist (son of Dr Philip Lutley Sclater), Director of Cape Town Mus. 1896-1906 (syn. Apalis thoracica capensis, subsp. Caprimulgus climacurus, subsp. Cercotrichas leucophrys, syn. Chlidonias hybrida delalandii, syn. Cisticola galactotes amphilectus, subsp. Cyanomitra olivacea, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, subsp. Monticola rufocinereus, subsp. Neomixis striatigula, syn. Ploceus bicolor stictifrons, Spizocorys, syn. Turtur afer).

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (crissalis)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis crissalis
crissale / crissalis
Mod. L. crissalis  crissal, of the vent  < crissum  vent, lower tail-coverts  < L. crissare  to copulate, “used of a certain motion of the haunches” (Coues 1882).

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (grenadensis)
SCI Name: Loxigilla noctis grenadensis
grenadensis
● Grenada, Lesser Antilles (probably named after the city of Granada in Spain) (syn. Butorides striata virescens, subsp. Loxigilla noctis, subsp. Troglodytes musculus).
● Grenadines, Lesser Antilles (named Los Granadillos, Little Granadas, by the Spanish) (syn. Coccyzus minor, subsp. Fulica americana).