Cocos Finch

SCI Name:  Pinaroloxias inornata
Protonym:  Cactornis inornatus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt11 no.126 p.104
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Pinaroloxias
Taxonomy Code:  cocfin1
Type Locality:  Bow Island, Low Archipelago, Polynesia ; corrected to Cocos Island by Richmond, 1902, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 15, pp. 247-248.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

PINAROLOXIAS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Cocos Finch P. inornata) Gr. πιναρος pinaros  dirty, shabby; genus Loxia Linnaeus, 1758, crossbill (cf. genus Loxops Cabanis, 1847, akepa); "CACTORNIS INORNATUS.  Cact. corpore superiore nigrescente-fusco  ...  Hab. Bow Island." (Gould 1843); "d⁴. Wing very long, exceeding the length of the tail and tarsus combined.   c⁵. Nasal membrane exposed.  ...  b⁶. Bill pointed and not festooned, the culmen flattened in front of the nostrils . . . . .9. PINAROLOXIAS, p. 52.   ...   9. PINAROLOXIAS.   Range. Bow or Harp Island, Low Archipelago.   1. Pinaroloxias inornata." (Sharpe 1885); "Pinaroloxias Sharpe, 1885, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 10, p. [3 (in key),] 52. Type, by monotypy, Cactornis inornata Gould." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 168). The Cocos Finch, originally thought to be a Galapagos finch from Polynesia, was classified by Sharpe 1885, with Loxops (of a similar bill shape), Loxioides, Psittirostra, and others, in Dicaeidae.
Synon. Cocornis.

inornata / inornatum / inornatus
L. inornatus  plain, unadorned  < in-  not; ornatus  adorned, decorated  < ornare  to adorn.
● See: mavornata