Rodrigues Fody

SCI Name:  Foudia flavicans
Protonym:  Foudia flavicans Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.47 pl.1 fig.1,2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Ploceidae / Foudia
Taxonomy Code:  rodfod1
Type Locality:  Rodriguez Island.
Author:  Newton, A
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

FOUDIA
(Ploceidae; Ϯ Red Fody F. madagascariensis) Malagasy names Foudi, Fodi or Fody for the Red Fody. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXIX, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae genuinae, includes a variety of thick-billed finches and other birds, and shows Foudia next to Cardinalis. "*951. Foudia, Reichenb. 1850. (Ploceus, p. Gr.)   Africa.   4.    1. LOXIA madagascariensis, L. (Cardinalis madagascariensis, Briss. - Euplectes rubra, Sw. - Ploceus ruber? Blyth. - Pl. madagascariensis et ruber, Gr.) Pl. enl. 134. 2. - Vieill. Ois. Chant. t. 53.  ex Ins. Maur. Madagascar.  ...  2. FRINGILLA erythrocephala et Emberiza rubra, Gm. (Ploceus erythrocephalus, Sw.-Pl. martineti! Gr.-Hyphantornis erythrocephalus, Blyth.) Pl. enl. 665. 1. mas. 2 faem. - Brown, Ill. Zool., t. 28. 2. - Vieill. Ois. Chant. t. 28. ex Ins. Mauritius.  ...  *3. F. eminentissimus, Bp. Mus. Paris. ex Afr. or. Zanzibar.  ...   4. PLOCEUS erythrops, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848. p. 109. ex Ins. S.^ti Thomae. Afr. occ." (Bonaparte 1850); "Foudia Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 79. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 70), Loxia madagascariensis Linnaeus." (Moreau in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 62).
Synon. Calyphantria, Nesacanthis, Neshyphantes.

flavicans
Mod. L. flavicans, flavicantis  becoming yellow, yellowing  < L. flavere  to be golden-yellow   < flavus  golden, yellow.
● ex “Citrin” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 127 (Prinia).
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  flavicans.  10. L. flava, dorso virescente, capite fulvo. Chin. Lagerstr. 17.  Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (unident.).
● ex “Aldrovandus’s second bird of paradise” of Willughby 1676, “Manucodiata secunda Aldrovandi” of Ray 1713, “Apiaster flavicans” of Brisson 1760, “Guêpier à tête jaune et blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow Bee-eater” of Latham 1782 (unident.;?Paradisaea sp.).