Stripe-headed Sparrow

SCI Name:  Peucaea ruficauda
Protonym:  Chondestes ruficauda Compt.Rend. 37 p.918
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Peucaea
Taxonomy Code:  sthspa1
Type Locality:  Nicaragua.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1853
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).

ruficauda
L. rufus red, ruddy; cauda tail.
● ex “Jacamar à Queue Rousse” of Levaillant 1801 (Galbula).
● ex “Rouge-queue de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 686, fig. 2 (syn. Synallaxis gujanensis).
● ex “Fauvette de Cayenne à queue rousse” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous-tailed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Stripe-headed Sparrow (acuminata)
SCI Name: Peucaea ruficauda acuminata
acuminata / acuminatus
L. acuminatus pointed < acuere to sharpen to a point.
● ex “Fringilla acuminata” of Lichtenstein MS (Peucaea).

Stripe-headed Sparrow (lawrencii)
SCI Name: Peucaea ruficauda lawrencii
lawrencii
George Newbold Lawrence (1806-1895) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus, syn. Gymnocichla nudiceps (ex Myrmelastes corvinus Lawrence, 1863), subsp. Icterus leucopteryx, Margarobyas, syn. Mimus gilvus gracilis, syn. Nesoctites micromegas, syn. Pelagodroma marina (ex Thalassidroma fregetta Lawrence, 1852), subsp. Peucaea ruficauda, Pheugopedius, Pseudocolaptes, syn. Sclerurus caudacutus umbretta, syn. Tachyphonus luctuosus (ex Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence, 1868), Turdus, syn. Vermivora pinus x chrysoptera, Zentrygon).

Stripe-headed Sparrow (connectens)
SCI Name: Peucaea ruficauda connectens
connectans / connectens
L. connectens  joined, connected, united  < connectere  to unite.

Stripe-headed Sparrow (ibarrorum)
SCI Name: Peucaea ruficauda ibarrorum
ibarrorum
Prof. Jorge Alfonso Ibarra (1921-2000) Guatemalan zoologist, conservationist,  his brother Germán A. Ibarra (fl. 1987) naturalist and collector, and their father Vicente Ibarra (fl. 1987) landowner (syn. Peucaea ruficauda).

Stripe-headed Sparrow (ruficauda)
SCI Name: Peucaea ruficauda ruficauda
ruficauda
L. rufus red, ruddy; cauda tail.
● ex “Jacamar à Queue Rousse” of Levaillant 1801 (Galbula).
● ex “Rouge-queue de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 686, fig. 2 (syn. Synallaxis gujanensis).
● ex “Fauvette de Cayenne à queue rousse” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous-tailed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).