Stripe-capped Sparrow

SCI Name:  Rhynchospiza strigiceps
Protonym:  Zonotrichia strigiceps Zool.Voy.Beagle[Darwin] pt11 p.92 ydP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Rhynchospiza
Taxonomy Code:  stcspa1
Type Locality:  Santa Fe, Argentina.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

RHYNCHOSPIZA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Tumbes Sparrow R. stolzmanni) Gr. ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "Genus Rhynchospiza.  (Type, Hæmophila stolzmanni Taczanowski.)   Similar to the shorter tailed, stouter billed species of Aimophila in proportions of toes, form of bill, and much rounded wing, but tail much shorter than wing, nearly even, and nostrils very small, circular, nearly hidden by latero-frontal feathers." (Ridgway 1898).

strigiceps
L. strix, strigis  furrow, groove; -ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

Strigiceps
● (syn. Circus Ϯ Hen Harrier C. cyaneus) L. strix, strigis  owl; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head; "Gen. 24. STRIGICEPS, Nob.   34. STRIGICEPS PYGARGUS, Nob. (Falco Pygargus & cyaneus, L.)  Gould, pl. 33" (Bonaparte 1838); "Strigiceps Bonaparte,¹ Comp. List Bds. Eur. Amer., p. 5, April, 1838—type, by subs. desig. (Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Amer. Bds., 3, p. 212, 1874), Falco cyaneus Linnaeus.  ...  ¹ Strigiceps Bonaparte (Giorn. Arcad., 49, p. 36, 1831) is a nomen nudum." (Hellmayr & Conover, 1949, XIII, 219).
● (unidentified ?syn.) L. strix, strigis  furrow; -ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head; "G. STRIGICEPS, Less.  ...  Ongles recourbés, faible; langue probablement des Philédons. - Hab. Nouvelle-Hollande?    1º Strigiceps leucopogon, Lesson.  ...  dessus de la tête et du cou marron; chaque plume étroite et striée de blanc puis de fauve au sommet; plumes de la gorge allongées, frangées sur les bords, très-étroites et en languettes, grises à leur base, blanches à leur sommet; joues, côtés du cou et thorax ferrugineux, quelques stries blanches sur les plumes thoraciques et jugulaires médianes" (Lesson 1840). Formerly Strigiceps Lesson, 1840, was linked with Chaetoptila, the extinct Kioea of Hawaii, but the coloured drawings by which this bird might have been positively identified have been lost. It may not even have been from Australia. A catalogue of the collection of Abeille (1850) listed the habitat of this bird as the Himalayas.

SUBSPECIES

Stripe-capped Sparrow (dabbenei)
SCI Name: Rhynchospiza strigiceps dabbenei
dabbenei
Roberto Raúl Dabbene (1864-1938) Italian-born Argentinian ornithologist (subsp. Aegolius harrisii, subsp. Anthus hellmayri, subsp. Lepidocolaptes angustirostris, Penelope (ex Penelope nigrifrons Dabbene, 1918), Rhynchospiza, syn. Upucerthia validirostris).

Stripe-capped Sparrow (strigiceps)
SCI Name: Rhynchospiza strigiceps strigiceps
strigiceps
L. strix, strigis  furrow, groove; -ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.