Mountain Serin

SCI Name:  Chrysocorythus estherae
Protonym:  Crithagra Estherae NotesLeydenMus. 23 no.3 p.151
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Chrysocorythus
Taxonomy Code:  mouser1
Type Locality:  Mt. Pangrango, 6,000 ft., western Java.
Author:  Finsch
Publish Year:  1902
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOCORYTHUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Mindanao Serin C. mindanensis) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; genus Corythus Cuvier, 1817, grosbeak; "so möge der Name Chrysocorythus auf jene Ähnlichkeit hinweisen (Corythus Cuv., 1817 = Pinicola Vieill., 1807; chrysos = Gold)" (Wolters 1967); "Chrysocorythus Wolters, 1967, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 18, p. 171. Type, by original designation, Serinus mindanensis Ripley and Rabor." (Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 209).

estherae
Esther Finsch (fl. 1957) daughter of German ornithologist Otto Finsch (Chrysocorythus).

SUBSPECIES

Mountain Serin (Mountain)
SCI Name: Chrysocorythus estherae [estherae Group]
CHRYSOCORYTHUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Mindanao Serin C. mindanensis) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; genus Corythus Cuvier, 1817, grosbeak; "so möge der Name Chrysocorythus auf jene Ähnlichkeit hinweisen (Corythus Cuv., 1817 = Pinicola Vieill., 1807; chrysos = Gold)" (Wolters 1967); "Chrysocorythus Wolters, 1967, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 18, p. 171. Type, by original designation, Serinus mindanensis Ripley and Rabor." (Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 209).

Mountain Serin (Mindanao)
SCI Name: Chrysocorythus estherae mindanensis
mindanaensis / mindanaoensis / mindanense / mindanensis
Mindanao, Philippines (named after the Maguindanao, a Moro people and former sultanate of the southern Philippines).
● (Boddaert 1783) ex “Merle de Mindanao” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 627, fig. 1 (Copsychus).
● (J. Gmelin 1789) ex “Merle de Mindanao” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 627, fig. 1, and “Mindanao Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Copsychus mindanensis).
● ex “Coucou tacheté de Mindanao” of Brisson 1760 (subsp. Eudynamys scolopacea).