Gold-naped Finch

SCI Name:  Pyrrhoplectes epauletta
Protonym:  Pyrrhula epauletta As.Res. 19 p.156
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Pyrrhoplectes
Taxonomy Code:  gonfin1
Type Locality:  northern and central Nepal.
Author:  Hodgson
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PYRRHOPLECTES
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Gold-naped Finch P. epauletta) Portmanteau of genera Pyrrhula Brisson, 1760, bullfinch, and Euplectes Swainson, 1829, bishop; "Fringillidæ.  ...  Pyrrhoplectes epauletta, [drawing nos.] 462, 463." (Hodgson 1844); "We have in the northern region chiefly two species of true Bullfinch or Erythrocephala, Gould, and Nipalensis, mihi, to which we must add a third species, styled epauletta by me, but which deviates too much from the typical form to remain under Pyrrhula; I separate it as a new type, by the name of Pyrrhoplectes.  Bill Pyrrhuline, but longer and less tumid, with the upper mandible subterminally, and the lower subcentrally notched; the gape angulated; wings shorter and more gradate than in Pyrrhula, with the fourth quill commonly longest; tail even or divaricated, not forked; legs and feet slenderer, longer, and more suited to action on the ground than in Pyrrhula.  Type, Pyrrhula epauletta" (Hodgson 1845); "Pyrrhoplectes Hodgson, 1844, in J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 85. Type, by [original designation and] monotypy, Pyrrhula epauletta Hodgson." (Paynter in Peters 1968, XIV, 305).
Var. Pyrrholeptes.
Synon. Pyrrhuloides.

epauletta
French épaulette  shoulder ornament, epaulette.
● “PYRRHULA? EPAULETTA. Epauletted Pyrrhula, nobis.  ...Male - black with the occiput bright silken yellow: a ruddy yellow tuft at the bend of the wings (unde nomen); the tertiaries white, partially or wholly, on the inner web” (Hodgson 1836) (Pyrrhoplectes).