Trumpeter Finch

SCI Name:  Bucanetes githagineus
Protonym:  Fringilla githaginea Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.24
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Bucanetes
Taxonomy Code:  trufin2
Type Locality:  Deram, Upper Egypt.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BUCANETES
(Fringillidae; † Trumpeter Finch B. githagineus) Gr. βυκανητης bukanētēs  trumpeter  < βυκανη bukanē  trumpet, war horn; "Gen. BUCANETES nov. gen. ***) Trompetengimpel.  822. 1. B. githagineus Nob. — Fringilla githaginea Licht. Doubl. p. 24. No. 242. — Pyrrhula githaginea Temm. Pl. col. 400. fig. 1. 2. — Pyrrhula Payraudaei Audouin Descript. de l'Egypte Zool. I. pag. 286. tab. 5. fig. 8. — Erythrospiza githaginea Bonap. Osserv. Règne anim. de Cuv. pag. 80. No. 3. — id. Bonap. Jconogr. Faun. ital. I. tab. 35. fig. 3. — id. Bonap. List. pag. 34. No. 228. — Pyrrhula githaginea Bl. Keysl. Wirbelth. Eur. Vög. N. 111   Carpodacus Payraudaei Gray Gen. Birds No. 6. — id. Cab. in Ersch u. Gruber Encycl. l. c. p. 218. N. 5.  Erythrospiza githaginea Bonap. Schleg. Mon. Lox. p. 29. tab. 33. — Gould Birds Eur. tab. 208.   ...   ***) Von βυκανητης, ου, ὁ, der Trompeter.  Von Carpodacus schon genügend durch die längeren spitzeren Flügel und den kürzeren Schwanz verscheiden, ebenso durch weniger breiten Schnabel, festeres Gefieder und Färbung.  Hierher: B. obsoletus. — Fringilla obsoleta Licht in Eversm. Reise App. p. 132." (Cabanis 1853); "Bucanetes Cabanis, 1851, Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 164.  Type, by subsequent designation, G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 81. Pyrrhula payraudæi Audouin, 1825 = Fringilla githaginea M. H. K. Lichtenstein, 1823.  Cabanis originally included two species, therefore type 'by monotypy' as cited by Howell et al. (1968: 263) is incorrect." (Kirwan and Gregory, 2005, Bull. British Ornith. Club, 125 (1), p. 77).
Var. Bucanestes, Buchanetes, Bycanetes.
Synon. Eremopsaltria.

githagineus
Botanical genus Githago Linnaeus, 1733, corn cockle  < L. gith coriander; -ago resembling; “elle porte le nom de Fringilla githaginea, probablement d’après un genre de plante githago” (Temminck 1835) (Bucanetes).

SUBSPECIES

Trumpeter Finch (amantum)
SCI Name: Bucanetes githagineus amantum
amantum
L. amantum  of the lovers  < amans, amantis  loving, affectionate  < amare  to love passionately.

Trumpeter Finch (zedlitzi)
SCI Name: Bucanetes githagineus zedlitzi
zedlitzi
Otto-Eduard Graf von Zedlitz und Trützschler (1873-1927) German ornithologist, explorer in Spitzbergen 1900, and East Africa 1908-1910, Vice-President of Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft 1921-1923 (subsp. Bucanetes githagineus, subsp. Cisticola brachypterus, syn. Lagonosticta senegala somaliensis, syn. Passer diffusus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, syn. Sylvietta whytii jacksoni ☼, syn. Trachyphonus darnaudii).

Trumpeter Finch (githagineus)
SCI Name: Bucanetes githagineus githagineus
githagineus
Botanical genus Githago Linnaeus, 1733, corn cockle  < L. gith coriander; -ago resembling; “elle porte le nom de Fringilla githaginea, probablement d’après un genre de plante githago” (Temminck 1835) (Bucanetes).

Trumpeter Finch (crassirostris)
SCI Name: Bucanetes githagineus crassirostris
crassirostra / crassirostre / crassirostris
L. crassus  thick, heavy; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Coucou à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 214 (syn. Eudynamys scolopaceus).
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (syn. Galerida magnirostris).
● ex “Thick-billed Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Oryzoborus).
● ex “Thick-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡syn. Turnagra capensis).