Yellow-breasted Greenfinch

SCI Name:  Chloris spinoides
Protonym:  Carduelis spinoides Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.4 p.44
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Chloris
Taxonomy Code:  yebgre4
Type Locality:  Himalayas ; restricted to Simla by Baker, 1921, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 27, p. 730.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHLORIS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ European Greenfinch C. chloris) Specific name Loxia chloris Linnaeus, 1758; "Verdiers ...... Chloris" (Cuvier 1800); "Chloris Cuvier, 1800, Lecons Anat. Comp., 1, tab. 2. Type, by tautonymy, Loxia chloris Linnaeus." (Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 234). 
Synon. Chlorospiza, Hypacanthis, Ligurinus.
● (Parulidae; syn. Setophaga Ϯ Northern Parula S. americana) Gr. myth. Chloris the nymph, also known as Flora, wife to Zephyrus and goddess of flowers and springtime (Bob Dowsett in litt.); "Chloris: Sylv. americana Lath.  u.s.w." (Boie 1826); "Chloris (not of Cuvier, 1800) Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972—type, by virtual monotypy, Sylvia americana Latham = Parus americanus Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1935, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VIII, p. 347).

chloris
● Gr. χλωρις khlōris, χλωριδος khlōridos  greenfinch  < χλωρος khlōros  green. In Gr. myth. Chlōris was one of the daughters of Pierus, who, having failed to best the Muses in a singing contest, was transformed into a finch (or a magpie, according to some!) (Acanthisitta, Chloris (see below), syn. Chlorodrepanis flava, Piprites).
● Mod. L. chloris  green, greenish  < Gr. χλωρις khlōris, χλωριδος khlōridos  greenfinch < χλωρος khlōros  green (cf. Gr. myth. Meliboea, a daughter of Niobe and Amphion, who was so traumatised by the slaughter of her siblings by a vengeful Apollo that she turned pale and changed her name to Chloris, the pale one) (Anthus, syn. Camaroptera brachyura (ex “Olivert” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 125), subsp. Melanocharis longicauda, Nicator, syn. Picus canus, subsp. Sicalis olivascens, subsp. Thapsinillas affinis, Todiramphus (ex “Martin-pêcheur à tête verte du cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 783, fig. 2, and “Green-headed Kingsfisher” of Latham 1782), Zosterops, unident. (ex “Chloris Indicus” of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, and “Oriolus Indicus” of Brisson 1760)).
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  Chloris.  20. L. flavicanti-virens, remigibus primoribus antice luteis, rectricibus lateralibus quatuor basi luteis.  Fringilla eadem. Fn. svec. 202.  Chloris. Gesn. av. 259. Will. orn. 129. Raj. av. 85. n. 4. Alb. av. I. p. 56. t. 58. Frisch. av. l. 8. f. 3. 4. Aldr. orn. l. 18. c. 18.  Habitat in Europa.  Media quasi inter Loxias & Emberizas, sed rostrum crassius quam in Emberizis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Chloris).

spinoides
Specific name Fringilla spinus Linnaeus, 1758; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "CARDUELIS SPINOÏDES.  Mas. Card. fronte, occipite, collo corporeque infra, ptilis, pteromatum apicibus, fascia remigum, rectricumque lateralium basibus flavis; capite supra dorsoque olivaceis; alis caudaque fuscescenti-nigris.  Fœm.? Coloribus minus saturatis; abdomine dorsoque olivaceo-fusco striatis.  Statura paulo major quam Card. Spini." (Vigors 1831) (Chloris).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-breasted Greenfinch (spinoides)
SCI Name: Chloris spinoides spinoides
spinoides
Specific name Fringilla spinus Linnaeus, 1758; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "CARDUELIS SPINOÏDES.  Mas. Card. fronte, occipite, collo corporeque infra, ptilis, pteromatum apicibus, fascia remigum, rectricumque lateralium basibus flavis; capite supra dorsoque olivaceis; alis caudaque fuscescenti-nigris.  Fœm.? Coloribus minus saturatis; abdomine dorsoque olivaceo-fusco striatis.  Statura paulo major quam Card. Spini." (Vigors 1831) (Chloris).

Yellow-breasted Greenfinch (heinrichi)
SCI Name: Chloris spinoides heinrichi
heinrichi
Gerhardt 'Gerd' Hermann Heinrich (1896-1984) German/Polish field entomologist, zoologist, collector in Poland, the Balkans, East Indies, Burma, Iran, tropical Africa, Mexico, and North America (subsp. Aerodramus vanikorensis, syn. Cacomantis aeruginosus, subsp. Cataponera turdoides, subsp. Chloris spinoides, Cossypha, syn. Dryobates minor buturlini, syn. Falco peregrinus ernesti, Geomalia, subsp. Heleia squamiceps, subsp. Prinia bairdii, subsp. Scolopax celebensis, syn. Sturnus vulgaris caucasicus, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).