Puna Yellow-Finch

SCI Name:  Sicalis lutea
Protonym:  Emberiza lutea Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.74
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sicalis
Taxonomy Code:  puyfin1
Type Locality:  summit of the Andes, Bolivia; type from ''pampas d''Oruro'', fide Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 309.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SICALIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Saffron Finch S. flaveola brasiliensis) Gr. σικαλις sikalis, συκαλλις sukallis or συκαλις sukalis, συκαλιδος sukalidos  small, black-headed bird, mentioned by Epicharmus, Aristotle, and other authors, not further identified, but perhaps a sort of warbler  < συκη sukē  fig-tree; Boie probably believed the classical name referred to the yellow buntings Emberiza, hence his bestowal of the generic epithet upon this group of yellow birds; "Die Zweckmäßigkeit, mit diesen gelb gefärbten Arten folgende zu verbinden, aus America:   1. Fringilla magellanica Gm. (dieser Vogel hat in neuerer Zeit wieder 2 neue Namen, icterica Lichst. und campestris Spix, erhalten.)    2. Fr. brasiliensis Gm.  ardens Illiger.  mexicana Forster. (nach Kuhls Annotation bey Ansicht der Forsterschen Zeichnungen).   3. Fr. lepida Gm.     Aus Africa:   4. Fr. butyracea Gm.  welche ebenfalls auf Feldern von Sämerenen leben, scheint mir 'sehr problematisch. Wahrscheinlich sind diese Vögel Repräsentanten einer besonderen Gruppe, für welche der Name Sicalis passend seyn würde" (Boie 1828); "Sicalis Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21, col. 324. Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis, in Tschudi, 1846, Unters. Faun. Peru., Aves, p. 215), Emberiza brasiliensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 122).  
Var. Siclais, Scialis, Sycalis.
Synon. Gnathospiza, Orospina, Pseudochloris, Pseudosicalis, Serinopsis.

lutea
L. luteus  saffron-yellow  < lutum  saffron, yellow dye (cf. Late Med. L. lutea or luteus  bird mentioned by Turner 1544, which he associated with the Yellowhammer).
● ex “Mésange de Nanquin” of Sonnerat 1782 (Leiothrix).
● ex “Guêpier jaune de la côte de Coromandel” of Sonnerat 1782 (syn. Merops viridis).
● ex “Luteous Flycatcher” (= ☼) of Latham 1783 ("Habitat in insula Otaheitee ...vocatur Oomamao" (Forster in Lichtenstein 1844) (syn. Pomarea nigra).
● ex “Yellow-rumped Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1758 (unident.).