Bachman's Sparrow

SCI Name:  Peucaea aestivalis
Protonym:  Fringilla aestivalis Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.25
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Peucaea
Taxonomy Code:  bacspa
Type Locality:  Georgia.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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).

aestivalis
L. aestivalis  of summer  < aestas, aestatis  summer (cf. aestus  heat).

SUBSPECIES

Bachman's Sparrow (illinoensis)
SCI Name: Peucaea aestivalis illinoensis
illiniaca / illinoensis / illinoisensis
Illinois, USA.

Bachman's Sparrow (bachmani)
SCI Name: Peucaea aestivalis bachmani
bachmani / bachmanii
Revd. Dr John Bachman (1790-1874) US scientist, naturalist, close friend of Audubon (subsp. Haematopus ater, subsp. Peucaea aestivalis, ‡Vermivora).

Bachman's Sparrow (aestivalis)
SCI Name: Peucaea aestivalis aestivalis
aestivalis
L. aestivalis  of summer  < aestas, aestatis  summer (cf. aestus  heat).