Black-headed Mountain-Finch

SCI Name:  Leucosticte brandti
Protonym:  Leucosticte brandti Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.537 ydP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Leucosticte
Taxonomy Code:  bhmfin1
Type Locality:  eastern Siberia; amended to Turkestan by Hartert, 1904, Vogel pal. Fauna, p. 137; restricted to Zailiski Ala Tau by Vaurie, 1959, Birds Pal. Fauna, Passeriformes, p. 621.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LEUCOSTICTE
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Grey-crowned Rosy Finch L. tephrocotis) Gr. λευκοστικτος leukostiktos  white-speckled, grizzled  < λευκος leukos  white; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo; "[79.] 1. LINARIA (LEUCOSTICTE) TEPHROCOTIS. (Swainson.)  Grey-crowned Linnet.   SUB-FAMILY, Coccothraustinæ, SWAINS.  Genus, Linaria, AUCT.  Sub-genus, Leucosticte, Sw.   CH. SP.  LINARIA (Leucosticte) TEPHROCOTIS, castanea, vertice nigrescenti, occipite cinereo-albescenti, tectricibus alarum minoribus tectricibusquæ caudæ et hypochondriis apicibus roseis.  ...  This new and striking species, of which only a single specimen was obtained, is obviously an aberrant form in the genus Linaria; but as we know not, at present, the remaining types, its more immediate affinities must remain unexplained. The vertical breadth of the bill and the arched commissure bring it into comparison with the Bullfinches." (Swainson 1831); "Leucosticte Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., 2 (1831), p. 265. Type, by monotypy, Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson." (Howell in Peters 1968, XIV, 257).  
Var. Tephrocotis.
Synon. Fringalauda, Hypolia.

leucosticte / leucostictos / leucostictus
Gr. λευκοστικτος leukostiktos  white-speckled, white-spotted  < λευκος leukos  white; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

brandti / brandtii
● Johann Friedrich Brandt (1802-1879) Prussian zoologist in the Russian service, explorer in Siberia (Eremophila, subsp. Garrulus glandarius, Leucosticte, syn. Phasianus colchicus mongolicus, syn. Poecile palustris kabardensis).
● J. G. W. Brandt (fl. 1860) German natural history dealer based in Hamburg, brother to Johann F. Brandt (syn. Ploceus cucullatus spilonotus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-headed Mountain-Finch (margaritacea)
SCI Name: Leucosticte brandti margaritacea
margaritacea
Mod. L. margaritaceus pearled, pearly, pearl- < L. margarita pearl < Gr. μαργαριτης margaritēs pearl.

Black-headed Mountain-Finch (brandti)
SCI Name: Leucosticte brandti brandti
brandti / brandtii
● Johann Friedrich Brandt (1802-1879) Prussian zoologist in the Russian service, explorer in Siberia (Eremophila, subsp. Garrulus glandarius, Leucosticte, syn. Phasianus colchicus mongolicus, syn. Poecile palustris kabardensis).
● J. G. W. Brandt (fl. 1860) German natural history dealer based in Hamburg, brother to Johann F. Brandt (syn. Ploceus cucullatus spilonotus).

Black-headed Mountain-Finch (pamirensis)
SCI Name: Leucosticte brandti pamirensis
pamirensis
Pamir Mts., “the roof of the world”, Tadjikistan/Afghanistan.

Black-headed Mountain-Finch (haematopygia)
SCI Name: Leucosticte brandti haematopygia
haematopygia
Gr. αἱμα haima, αἱματος haimatos  blood; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

Black-headed Mountain-Finch (pallidior)
SCI Name: Leucosticte brandti pallidior
pallidior / pallidiora
L. pallidior, pallidioris  paler  < comp. pallidus  pale  < pallere  to be pale.