Brewer's Sparrow

SCI Name:  Spizella breweri
Protonym:  Spizella breweri Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 8 p.40
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Spizella
Taxonomy Code:  brespa
Type Locality:  western North America, California, and New Mexico ; type from Black Hills, North Dakota, fide Stone, 1899, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 30.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1856
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SPIZELLA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Field Sparrow S. pusilla) Dim. < Gr. σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "FIELD SPARROW.  FRINGILLA PUSILLA.  ...  THIS is the smallest of all our Sparrows, and in Pennsylvania is generally migratory.  ...  It is more frequently found in the middle of fields and orchards than any of the other species, which usually lurk along hedge rows." (A. Wilson 1810); "3. Spizella, Nob.  (typ. Fr. pusilla, Wils.)" (Bonaparte 1831).
Synon. Spinites.

breweri
● Dr Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880) US politician, newspaper editor, oologist (syn. Anas platyrhynchos x Anas strepera, syn. Euphagus cyanocephalus, Merops, Spizella).
● Charles Brewer-Carías (b. 1938) Venezuelan dentist, anthropologist, explorer (subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).

SUBSPECIES

Brewer's Sparrow (breweri)
SCI Name: Spizella breweri breweri
breweri
● Dr Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880) US politician, newspaper editor, oologist (syn. Anas platyrhynchos x Anas strepera, syn. Euphagus cyanocephalus, Merops, Spizella).
● Charles Brewer-Carías (b. 1938) Venezuelan dentist, anthropologist, explorer (subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).

Brewer's Sparrow (Timberline)
SCI Name: Spizella breweri taverneri
taverneri
Percy Algernon Taverner (1875-1947) Canadian ornithologist (syn. Haemorhous purpureus, subsp. Spizella breweri).