Rufous-winged Sparrow

SCI Name:  Peucaea carpalis
Protonym:  Peucaea carpalis Am.Nat. 7 p.322,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Peucaea
Taxonomy Code:  ruwspa
Type Locality:  Tucson, Arizona.
Author:  Coues
Publish Year:  1873
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PEUCAEA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Bachman's Sparrow P. aestivalis bachmani) Gr. πευκη peukē pine-tree; "GENUS VI.  PEUCÆA, AUD.  PINEWOOD-FINCH.   Bill of moderate length, rather stout, straight, considerably compressed, acute; upper mandible with the dorsal line somewhat convex, the ridge rather narrow, the sides convex, the edges inflected, with the notches obsolete, the tip acute; lower mandible with the angle short and rounded, the dorsal line ascending and slightly convex, the ridge rounded, the sides convex, the edges involute, the tip acute. Nostrils small, roundish, partially concealed by the plumage.  ...  Name from Πευκη, a pine.   176. 1. Peucæa Bachmanii, AUD.  Bachman's Pinewood-Finch.   ...   177. 2. Peucæa Lincolnii, AUD.  Lincoln's Pinewood-Finch." (Audubon 1839); "Peucaea Audubon, Syn. Bds. N. Amer., p. 112, 1839—type, by subs. desig. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., p. 60, 1841), Peucaea bachmanii Audubon." (Hellmayr 1938, XIII, 516).

carpalis
Mod. L. carpalis  of the wrist, carpal  < carpus  wrist  < Gr. καρπος karpos  wrist.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-winged Sparrow (carpalis)
SCI Name: Peucaea carpalis carpalis
carpalis
Mod. L. carpalis  of the wrist, carpal  < carpus  wrist  < Gr. καρπος karpos  wrist.

Rufous-winged Sparrow (bangsi)
SCI Name: Peucaea carpalis bangsi
bangsi
Outram Bangs (1863-1932) US zoologist, collector (syn. Aethopyga gouldiae dabryii, Amazilia rutila x Amazilia tzacatl, subsp. Amphispiza bilineata, syn. Automolus leucophthalmus, subsp. Buteogallus anthracinus, syn. Catharus aurantiirostris melpomene, subsp. Cuculus canorus, syn. Cyanoderma ruficeps davidi, syn. Emberiza godlewskii omissa, syn. Galerida deva, Grallaria, subsp. Halcyon coromanda, subsp. Hapalocrex flaviventer, subsp. Henicorhina leucophrys, syn. Hydrobates castro, subsp. Leptotila verreauxi, syn. Loxia curvirostra himalayensis, subsp. Manacus manacus, syn. Mirafra cantillans, syn. Myiarchus tuberculifer nigricapillus, syn. Parus major nigriloris, subsp. Peucaea carpalis, subsp. Prinia crinigera, syn. Pterocles orientalis arenarius, subsp. Quiscalus niger, syn. Sheppardia sharpei, subsp. Sitta villosa, subsp. Sterna dougallii, subsp. Tachybaptus dominicus, subsp. Tangara gyrola, subsp. Xiphorhynchus triangularis).

Rufous-winged Sparrow (cohaerens)
SCI Name: Peucaea carpalis cohaerens
cohaerens
L. cohaerens, cohaerentis  being in accord, corresponding  < cohaerere  to cling together.