Principe Seedeater

SCI Name:  Crithagra rufobrunnea
Protonym:  Linurgus rufobrunneus Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(3), 10 p.444
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  prisee1
Type Locality:  western Africa [= Principe Island, fide Hartlaub, in Dohrn, 1866, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 328] .
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1862
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.

rufobrunnea / rufobrunneus
L. rufus  rufous; Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown.

SUBSPECIES

Principe Seedeater (rufobrunnea)
SCI Name: Crithagra rufobrunnea rufobrunnea
rufobrunnea / rufobrunneus
L. rufus  rufous; Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown.

Principe Seedeater (thomensis)
SCI Name: Crithagra rufobrunnea thomensis
thome / thomensis
São Tomé or São Thomé, Gulf of Guinea (the island was sighted by Portuguese explorers on 21 December 1471, the feast day of St Thomas, the patron saint of Portugal).
● ?Erroneous TL. São Tomé (Estrilda).
● Erroneous TL. St Thomas; ex “Duc-laart” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Black-breasted Grebe” of Latham 1785 (syn. Podilymbus podiceps).
● Erroneous TL. St Thomas; ex “Grèbe de l’Isle St. Thomas” of Brisson 1760 (ex “Espèce de Plongeon” or “Mergus major leucophaeus” of Feuillée 1725) (syn. Podilymbus podiceps antillarum).

Principe Seedeater (fradei)
SCI Name: Crithagra rufobrunnea fradei
fradei
Prof. Dr Fernando Frade Viegas da Costa (1898-1983) Portuguese zoologist, anthropologist, collector in Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique (subsp. Crithagra rufobrunnea, syn. Mirafra sabota suffusca).