Tumbes Sparrow / Rhynchospiza stolzmanni
WBN 
Tumbes Sparrow
SCI Name:
Protonym: Haemophila stolzmanni Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.322
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Rhynchospiza
Taxonomy Code: tumspa1
Type Locality: Tumbes, Peru.
Author: Taczanowski
Publish Year: 1877
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).
stolzmanni
Jan Stanisław Sztolcman (1854-1928) Polish zoologist, collector in tropical America 1875-1881, 1882-1884, and Sudan 1901, Director of the Branicki Zoological Mus., Warsaw 1887, Vice-Director of Polish State Mus. of Nat. History, Warsaw 1919, conservationist (e.g. he initiated the European Bison protection programme). His surname was more frequently written Stolzmann (syn. Colaptes rupicola cinereicapillus, syn. Elaenia obscura, Habia, Oreotrochilus, Rhynchospiza, Tachycineta, Tyranneutes, Urothraupis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
