Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow / Melozone kieneri
Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pyrgisoma kieneri Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.486 ydP
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Melozone
Taxonomy Code: rcgspa1
Type Locality: 'ex Am. occ.''; restricted to San Bias, Nayarit, by van Rossem, 1934, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77, p. 423.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELOZONE
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Prevost's Ground Sparrow M. biarcuata) Gr. μηλον mēlon cheek; ζωνη zōnē girdle, belt. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXIX, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae genuinae, includes a variety of heavy-billed birds and shows the distinctive face pattern of this finch; "XXIX. Melozone *) RCHB. Nat. Syst. t. LXXIX. Gürtelwange. Von voriger Gattung [Amadina] durch dünneren (ploceus- oder finkenartigen) Schnabel und seicht doppelbogig quer abgeschnittenen Schwanz unterschieden. — Hier nur möglicher Verwechselung wegen aufgeführt, gehört nämlich unter die Tanagrinen und ist um ein Jahr später von Mr. PUCHERAN und BONAPARTE consp. 486. n. 1012. Pyrgisoma genannt worden. 109. M. biarcuata (Pyrgita — NÉBOUX. Moineau à double croissant. Venus pl. 6. Melozone biarcuata RCHB. Pyrgisoma — PUCHERAN. BP. ... *) το μηλον, ου, die Wange, ἡ ζωνη, ης, Gürtel, Bogen." (Reichenbach 1862); "Melozone Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 79 [, fig. 10]. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 731), Pyrgita biarcuata Prévost and Des Murs." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 180).
Var. Meloxone, Molozone.
Synon. Kieneria, Melanzona, Meloxene, Pyrgisoma.
kieneri
Louis-Charles Kiener (1799-1881) French zoologist, conchologist (Kieneria, syn. Ocreatus underwoodi).
SUBSPECIES
Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow (grisior)
SCI Name: Melozone kieneri grisior
grisior
Mod. L. grisior, grisioris more grey < comp. Med. L. griseum grey.
Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow (kieneri)
SCI Name: Melozone kieneri kieneri
kieneri
Louis-Charles Kiener (1799-1881) French zoologist, conchologist (Kieneria, syn. Ocreatus underwoodi).
Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow (rubricata)
SCI Name: Melozone kieneri rubricata
rubricata / rubricatum / rubricatus
L. rubricatus red-ochred, ruddy < rubrica red-ochre < ruber, rubra red, ruddy.
● ex “Sénégali rouge” of Vieillot 1805 (Lagonosticta).
● ex “Ruddy Warbler” of Latham 1801 (syn. Origma solitaria).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)