Black-throated Canary

SCI Name:  Crithagra atrogularis
Protonym:  Linaria atrogularis Rep.Exped.Centr.Afr. p.49
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  bltcan1
Type Locality:  country about and beyond Kurrichaine, i.e. Zeerust, western Transvaal.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CRITHAGRA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Brimstone Canary C. sulphurata) Gr. κριθη krithē  barley; αγρα agra  hunting  < αγρεω agreō  to hunt; "CRITHAGRA.  Rostrum breve, sub-conicum, crassum, integrum; culmine arcuato; tomio curvato.  Alæ subelongatæ; remigibus 1^ma, 2^da, 3^tia, et 4^ta æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, subfurcata. ...  Types. Lox. sulphurata, flaviventris. Lath.  Africa only?" (Swainson 1827); "Crithagra Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 348), Loxia sulphurata Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 208).
Var. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

atrogularis
L. ater  black; Mod. L. gularis throated  < L. gula  throat.
● ex “Coliou Rayé à Gorge Noire” of Levaillant 1808, pl. 259 (syn. Colius striatus nigricollis).
● ex “Vanneau armé de Goa” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, and Parra goensis J. Gmelin, 1789 (syn. Vanellus indicus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-throated Canary (somereni)
SCI Name: Crithagra atrogularis somereni
somereni
● Dr Victor Gurnet Logan van Someren (1886-1976) Scottish physician, medical officer in Kenya, ornithologist, entomologist, first Director (1930) of Coryndon Mus. (now Nairobi National Mus.) (syn. Cossypha polioptera, syn. Crithagra burtoni tanganjicae, subsp. Hedydipna collaris, subsp. Podica senegalensis, syn. Sarothrura boehmi, subsp. Terpsiphone rufiventer, syn. Uraeginthus ianthinogaster (ex Granatina ianthogaster ugandae van Someren, 1919)).
● Dr Robert Abraham Logan van Someren (1880-1955) Scottish physician, medical officer in Uganda 1905-1925, naturalist (subsp. Crithagra atrogularis).
● Lt. Noel van Someren (d. 1921) British Army, collector in East Africa (syn. Zosterops poliogastrus kikuyuensis).

Black-throated Canary (lwenarum)
SCI Name: Crithagra atrogularis lwenarum
lwenarum
Lwena or Lovale, a Bantu people of Angola and western Zambia.

Black-throated Canary (deserti)
SCI Name: Crithagra atrogularis deserti
deserta / desertae / deserti
L. desertum  desert, waste, solitude  < deserere  to abandon.
● Desertas Is., Madeira (Pterodroma).
● Erroneous TL. South Africa (= New Zealand); "113. MUSCICAPA.  ...  deserti.  92.  ...  Muscicapa fuliginosa.  Sparrm. mus. Carls. 2. t. 47.   Habitat in Africae deserto inter fluvium Hevy et fontem Quammedacka intermedio" (J. Gmelin 1789) (syn. Rhipidura fuliginosa).

Black-throated Canary (semideserti)
SCI Name: Crithagra atrogularis semideserti
semideserti
L. semi-  half-, part  < semis, semissis  half  < as, assis  whole; desertum, deserti  desert.

Black-throated Canary (atrogularis)
SCI Name: Crithagra atrogularis atrogularis
atrogularis
L. ater  black; Mod. L. gularis throated  < L. gula  throat.
● ex “Coliou Rayé à Gorge Noire” of Levaillant 1808, pl. 259 (syn. Colius striatus nigricollis).
● ex “Vanneau armé de Goa” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, and Parra goensis J. Gmelin, 1789 (syn. Vanellus indicus).

Black-throated Canary (impigra)
SCI Name: Crithagra atrogularis impigra
impiger / impigra
L. impiger  active, diligent  < in-  not; piger  lazy, slow  < pigere  it disgusts.

Black-throated Canary (seshekeensis)
SCI Name: Crithagra atrogularis seshekeensis
seshekeensis
Sesheke District, south-western Northern Rhodesia / Zambia.