Olive Sparrow

SCI Name:  Arremonops rufivirgatus
Protonym:  Embernagra rufivirgata Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 5(1852) p.112 pl.5 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Arremonops
Taxonomy Code:  olispa
Type Locality:  Rio Grande in Texas; type from Brownsville, Texas, fide Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 439.
Author:  Lawrence
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ARREMONOPS
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Olive Sparrow A. rufivirgatus) Genus Arremon Vieillot, 1816, sparrow; Gr. ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  appearance; “(71.)  GENUS ARREMONOPS RIDGWAY.  ...  586. A. rufivirgata LAWR. Texas Sparrow.   ...   (71.)  Page 434, GENUS ARREMONOPS.  New genus: Type, Embernagra rufivirgata LAWR.  The Mexican and Central American species usually referred to the genus Embernagra LESS. are so different in structural and other characters from the type of the latter (Emberiza platensis GMEL.) that only a moment's comparison is necessary to demonstrate their generic distinctness.  The name chosen for the new genus is selected on account of the very close affinity of the birds in question to those of the genus Arremon VIEILL. (usually placed among the Tanagers).  In fact, I have found it difficult to discover reasons for separating them generically from the latter.” (Ridgway 1896); "Arremonops Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Bds., 2nd ed., pp. 434, 605, 1896—type, by orig. desig., Embernagra rufivirgata Lawrence." (Hellmayr, 1938, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. XI, p. 439).

arremonops
Genus Arremon Vieillot, 1816, sparrow; Gr. ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  appearance (Oreothraupis).

rufivirgata / rufivirgatus
L. rufus rufous; virgatus striped < virga stripe.

SUBSPECIES

Olive Sparrow (Olive)
SCI Name: Arremonops rufivirgatus [rufivirgatus Group]
ARREMONOPS
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Olive Sparrow A. rufivirgatus) Genus Arremon Vieillot, 1816, sparrow; Gr. ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  appearance; “(71.)  GENUS ARREMONOPS RIDGWAY.  ...  586. A. rufivirgata LAWR. Texas Sparrow.   ...   (71.)  Page 434, GENUS ARREMONOPS.  New genus: Type, Embernagra rufivirgata LAWR.  The Mexican and Central American species usually referred to the genus Embernagra LESS. are so different in structural and other characters from the type of the latter (Emberiza platensis GMEL.) that only a moment's comparison is necessary to demonstrate their generic distinctness.  The name chosen for the new genus is selected on account of the very close affinity of the birds in question to those of the genus Arremon VIEILL. (usually placed among the Tanagers).  In fact, I have found it difficult to discover reasons for separating them generically from the latter.” (Ridgway 1896); "Arremonops Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Bds., 2nd ed., pp. 434, 605, 1896—type, by orig. desig., Embernagra rufivirgata Lawrence." (Hellmayr, 1938, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. XI, p. 439).

Olive Sparrow (Pacific)
SCI Name: Arremonops rufivirgatus [superciliosus Group]
ARREMONOPS
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Olive Sparrow A. rufivirgatus) Genus Arremon Vieillot, 1816, sparrow; Gr. ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  appearance; “(71.)  GENUS ARREMONOPS RIDGWAY.  ...  586. A. rufivirgata LAWR. Texas Sparrow.   ...   (71.)  Page 434, GENUS ARREMONOPS.  New genus: Type, Embernagra rufivirgata LAWR.  The Mexican and Central American species usually referred to the genus Embernagra LESS. are so different in structural and other characters from the type of the latter (Emberiza platensis GMEL.) that only a moment's comparison is necessary to demonstrate their generic distinctness.  The name chosen for the new genus is selected on account of the very close affinity of the birds in question to those of the genus Arremon VIEILL. (usually placed among the Tanagers).  In fact, I have found it difficult to discover reasons for separating them generically from the latter.” (Ridgway 1896); "Arremonops Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Bds., 2nd ed., pp. 434, 605, 1896—type, by orig. desig., Embernagra rufivirgata Lawrence." (Hellmayr, 1938, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. XI, p. 439).