Pink-billed Parrotfinch

SCI Name:  Erythrura kleinschmidti
Protonym:  Amblynura kleinschmidti Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.440 pl.29
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Erythrura
Taxonomy Code:  pibpar1
Type Locality:  Viti Levu.
Author:  Finsch
Publish Year:  1878
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

ERYTHRURA
(Estrildidae; † Pin-tailed Parrotfinch E. prasina) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ουρα oura  tail; excepting E. hyperythra and E. kleinschmidti, all male parrotfinches have bright red rumps and tails; "Erythura, Sw.  Bill thick, lengthened, resembling that of Euplectes. Tail very long, acuminated.   E. viridis. Pl. Col. 96." (Swainson 1837); "Erythrura Swainson, 1837, Class. Birds, 2, p. 280 (originally misspelled Erythura, but universally emended).  Type, by monotypy, Erythrura viridis Temminck, 1835, Pl. Col., livr. 96 = Loxia prasina Sparrman." (Mayr in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 362). 
Var. Erythura (original spelling).   
Synon. Acalanthe, Acmura, Amblynura, Chloromunia, Chlorura, Erythrina, Lobiospiza, Lobospingus, Poedela, Reichenowia, Rhamphostruthus, Trichroa.

erythrura / erythruros / erythrurus
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; -ουρος -ouros -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

kleinschmidti
● Dr Konrad Ernst Adolf Otto Kleinschmidt (1870-1954) German pastor, theologian, taxidermist, ornithologist who introduced the formenkreis concept (syn. Accipiter gentilis arrigonii, subsp. Anthus petrosus, syn. Cuculus canorus, syn. Emberiza calandra, syn. Falco peregrinus japonensis, subsp. Galerida cristata, syn. Garrulus glandarius fasciatus, syn. Passer griseus, subsp. Poecile montanus, syn. Saxicola maurus stejnegeri, syn. Sitta europaea amurensis, syn. Tyto alba).
● Theodor Kleinschmidt (1834-1881) German trader, explorer, collector in the Pacific 1875-1881 (Erythrura, syn. Myzomela cruentata coccinea, subsp. Petroica pusilla) (see klinesmithi).