Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch

SCI Name:  Sicalis citrina
Protonym:  Sycalis citrina Orn.Brasil. Abth.3 p.232
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sicalis
Taxonomy Code:  styfin1
Type Locality:  Jaguaraiba, Murungaba [, Parana], and Itarare [, Sao Paulo], Brazil; type from Jaguaraiba, fide Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 307.
Author:  von Pelzeln
Publish Year:  1870
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SICALIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Saffron Finch S. flaveola brasiliensis) Gr. σικαλις sikalis, συκαλλις sukallis or συκαλις sukalis, συκαλιδος sukalidos  small, black-headed bird, mentioned by Epicharmus, Aristotle, and other authors, not further identified, but perhaps a sort of warbler  < συκη sukē  fig-tree; Boie probably believed the classical name referred to the yellow buntings Emberiza, hence his bestowal of the generic epithet upon this group of yellow birds; "Die Zweckmäßigkeit, mit diesen gelb gefärbten Arten folgende zu verbinden, aus America:   1. Fringilla magellanica Gm. (dieser Vogel hat in neuerer Zeit wieder 2 neue Namen, icterica Lichst. und campestris Spix, erhalten.)    2. Fr. brasiliensis Gm.  ardens Illiger.  mexicana Forster. (nach Kuhls Annotation bey Ansicht der Forsterschen Zeichnungen).   3. Fr. lepida Gm.     Aus Africa:   4. Fr. butyracea Gm.  welche ebenfalls auf Feldern von Sämerenen leben, scheint mir 'sehr problematisch. Wahrscheinlich sind diese Vögel Repräsentanten einer besonderen Gruppe, für welche der Name Sicalis passend seyn würde" (Boie 1828); "Sicalis Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21, col. 324. Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis, in Tschudi, 1846, Unters. Faun. Peru., Aves, p. 215), Emberiza brasiliensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 122).  
Var. Siclais, Scialis, Sycalis.
Synon. Gnathospiza, Orospina, Pseudochloris, Pseudosicalis, Serinopsis.

citrina
Med. L. citrinus  yellow, citrine  < L. citrus  citron, citrus (cf. According to Ray 1713, Citrina is a German name for the Canary).
● ex “Citrine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Acanthisitta chloris).
● ex “Orange-headed Thrush” of Latham 1787 (Geokichla).
● ex “Citrin” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 127 (syn. Prinia flavicans).
● ex “Gobe-mouche de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 666, fig. 2 (Setophaga).

SUBSPECIES

Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch (browni)
SCI Name: Sicalis citrina browni
browni / brownii
● Peter Brown (?or Bruun) (fl. 1790) Danish/Norwegian natural history painter and botanical illustrator (syn. Accipiter badius).
● Herbert Brown (1843-1913) US newspaper owner, Curator of University of Arizona Mineral Mus. 1893-1913 (syn. Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha).
● Wilmot Wood Brown, Jr. (?1868-1953) US field-naturalist, collector in Colombia, Panama and Mexico (subsp. Elaenia frantzii, syn. Grallaricula ferrugineipectus, subsp. Sicalis citrina, subsp. Spizella wortheni, Thryorchilus, syn. Vermivora crissalis, subsp. Vireo brevipennis).
● Revd. George Brown (1835-1917) Scottish missionary to Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Is., Bismarck Archipelago and New Guinea (Reinwardtoena, Symposiachrus).
● Robert Brown (1773-1858) Scottish naturalist, botanist, collector in Australia 1801-1803 (syn. Malurus melanocephalus, syn. Platycercus caledonicus, syn. Platycercus venustus, syn. Pomatostomus temporalis rubeculus (OD per Björn Bergenholtz)).
● Edward Johnson Brown (1866-1934) US field-ornithologist, collector (subsp. Sternula antillarum).

Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch (citrina)
SCI Name: Sicalis citrina citrina
citrina
Med. L. citrinus  yellow, citrine  < L. citrus  citron, citrus (cf. According to Ray 1713, Citrina is a German name for the Canary).
● ex “Citrine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Acanthisitta chloris).
● ex “Orange-headed Thrush” of Latham 1787 (Geokichla).
● ex “Citrin” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 127 (syn. Prinia flavicans).
● ex “Gobe-mouche de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 666, fig. 2 (Setophaga).

Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch (occidentalis)
SCI Name: Sicalis citrina occidentalis
occidentale / occidentalis
L. occidentalis  western  < occidens, occidentis  west  < occidere  to set. This toponym was frequently given to taxa discovered in locations west of previously known populations.
● Cocal, Western Andes, Colombia (Dysithamnus).
● Jamaica; ex “Onocrotalus” or “Pelecanus fuscus” of Sloane 1725, “Pelican of America” of Edwards 1747, and “Pelecanus” of Browne 1756 (Pelecanus).
● TL. Day Dawn, Western Australia; "Westralian Wedgebill" (Mathews 1912) (Psophodes).