Band-tailed Sierra-Finch

SCI Name:  Porphyrospiza alaudina
Protonym:  Fringilla alaudina Kupfer.Nat.Vog. 2 p.18 pl.23 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Porphyrospiza
Taxonomy Code:  btsfin1
Type Locality:  Chile [-Valparaiso, by implication] .
Author:  von Kittlitz
Publish Year:  1833
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PORPHYROSPIZA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Blue Finch P. caerulescens) Gr. πορφυρα porphura  purple; σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "GENUS XXI. PORPHYROSPIZA  GEN. NOV. III.   1. cyanella (Sparm.) ex Bras. int.  ...  III. PORPHYROSPIZA, gen. nov. p. 30  (πορφυρα, purpur, et σπιζα, fringilla).   A Cyanospiza, cujus coloribus gaudet, rostro graciliore, longiore, sicut in genere Coryphospingo formato, diversa, et huic generi magis approximanda.  Typus, P. CYANELLA, i.e. Cyanospiza cyanella, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 227, ex Brasilia" (P. Sclater & Salvin 1873); "Porphyrospiza P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1873, Nomen. Av. Neotrop., pp. 30, 155. Type, by original designation, Cyanospiza cyanella Pelzeln (not Emberiza cyanella Sparrman) = Tanagra caerulescens Wied." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 238).
Var. Porphyriospiza.

alaudina / alaudinus
Mod. L. alaudinus  lark-like, of a lark  < L. alauda  lark.

SUBSPECIES

Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (bipartita)
SCI Name: Porphyrospiza alaudina bipartita
bipartita / bipartitus
L. bipartitus  divided in two parts, bisected  < bi-  two-  < bis  twice; partitus  divided  < partire  to divide.

Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (humboldti)
SCI Name: Porphyrospiza alaudina humboldti
humboldti / humboldtii
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (1769-1859) Prussian scientist, explorer (Amazilia, subsp. Corydospiza alaudina, subsp. Pternistis afer,  Pteroglossus, Spheniscus).

Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (bracki)
SCI Name: Porphyrospiza alaudina bracki
bracki
Dr Antonio José Brack Egg (1940-2014) Peruvian agronomist, environmentalist, Minister of the Environment 2008-2011 (subsp. Corydospiza alaudina).

Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (excelsa)
SCI Name: Porphyrospiza alaudina excelsa
excelsa
L. excelsus  distinguished, lofty, eminent  < ex  from; celsus  lofty, eminent  < obsolescent cellere  to elevate.

Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (alaudina)
SCI Name: Porphyrospiza alaudina alaudina
alaudina / alaudinus
Mod. L. alaudinus  lark-like, of a lark  < L. alauda  lark.

Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (venturii)
SCI Name: Porphyrospiza alaudina venturii
venturiana / venturii
Santiago Venturi (d. 1930) Argentinian naturalist, oologist, plant-collector (syn. Columba picazuro, subsp. Corydospiza alaudina, syn. Thinocorus rumicivorus).