West African Seedeater

SCI Name:  Crithagra canicapilla
Protonym:  Poliospiza canicapilla Bull.Acad.R.Sci.Brux. 22 pt1 p.151
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  sthsee3
Type Locality:  Senegal; Ghana substituted by White, 1963, Revised Check List African Flycatchers, . . . Buntings . . . , p. 119, since the species is otherwise unknown from Senegal.
Author:  Du Bus
Publish Year:  1855
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.

canicapilla / canicapillum / canicapillus
L. canus  grey; -capillus  -capped, -headed  < capillus  hair of the head.

SUBSPECIES

West African Seedeater (canicapilla)
SCI Name: Crithagra canicapilla canicapilla
canicapilla / canicapillum / canicapillus
L. canus  grey; -capillus  -capped, -headed  < capillus  hair of the head.

West African Seedeater (montanorum)
SCI Name: Crithagra canicapilla montanorum
montanorum
L. montanorum  of the mountains  < mons, montis  mountain.

West African Seedeater (elgonensis)
SCI Name: Crithagra canicapilla elgonensis
elgonense / elgonensis
Mt. Elgon, Kenya.