Salvadori's Serin

SCI Name:  Crithagra xantholaema
Protonym:  Serinus xantholaema Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 36 p.44
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  salser1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1896
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

CRITHAGRA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Brimstone Canary C. sulphurata) Gr. κριθη krithē  barley; αγρα agra  hunting  < αγρεω agreō  to hunt; "CRITHAGRA.  Rostrum breve, sub-conicum, crassum, integrum; culmine arcuato; tomio curvato.  Alæ subelongatæ; remigibus 1^ma, 2^da, 3^tia, et 4^ta æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, subfurcata. ...  Types. Lox. sulphurata, flaviventris. Lath.  Africa only?" (Swainson 1827); "Crithagra Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 348), Loxia sulphurata Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 208).
Var. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

xantholaema / xantholaemus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow, golden-yellow; λαιμος laimos  throat.

Xantholaema
(syn. Psilopogon Ϯ Coppersmith Barbet P. haemacephalus) Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow, golden-yellow; λαιμος laimos  throat; "11. MEGALÆMA, Gr.  ...  d. Xantholæma, Bp.  —  47. *philippensis, Br. (luteus, Less. var.)  —  48. rubrifrons, Merr.  —  49. rubricapillus, Merr.  —  50. flavigula, Bodd.  —  51. roseus, Cuv. (pullarius, Merr.)  —  52. rafflesius, Boie." (Bonaparte 1854); "Megalæma d Xantholæma Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, 2, 1854, p. 127. (Consp. Vol. Zygodact., p. 12.) Type, by subsequent designation, Bucco philippensis Gmelin. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 90." (Peters 1948, VI, 31).   Var. Xantholoema.