Forest Canary

SCI Name:  Crithagra scotops
Protonym:  Crithagra scotops Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.98
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  forcan1
Type Locality:  lower Caffraria; type from Pietermaritzburg, Natal, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 816.
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
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.

scotops
Gr. σκοτος skotos  darkness; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, countenance.

SUBSPECIES

Forest Canary (kirbyi)
SCI Name: Crithagra scotops kirbyi
kirbyi
Maj. Frederick Vaughan-Kirby (1868-1945) British big-game hunter, Chief Game Conservator in Zululand 1911-1929 (syn. Colius striatus minor, subsp. Crithagra scotops, syn. Heliolais erythropterus rhodopterus).

Forest Canary (umbrosa)
SCI Name: Crithagra scotops umbrosa
umbrosa / umbrosus
L. umbrosus  shady, of shade, of twilight  < umbra  shade.

Forest Canary (scotops)
SCI Name: Crithagra scotops scotops
scotops
Gr. σκοτος skotos  darkness; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, countenance.