White-winged Diuca-Finch

SCI Name:  Idiopsar speculifer
Protonym:  Emberiza speculifera Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.78
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Idiopsar
Taxonomy Code:  wwdfin1
Type Locality:  'in summis Andibus, Bolivia''.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

IDIOPSAR
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Short-tailed Finch I. brachyurus) Gr. ιδιος idios  peculiar, distinct; ψαρ psar, ψαρος psaros  starling; "III. Genus IDIOPSAR, nobis.  In the collection of the Smithsonian Institution I find a specimen of a very interesting and singular bird, evidently Icterine, and allied to Quiscalus and Scolecophagus, but not to be referred with any considerable degree of propriety to either of those or to any other genus of this group. The tail is short, nearly even at the end, and emarginate, and the wings long.  General form short and compact, bill about the length of the head, strong, slightly curved, with the commissure much inflexed in both mandibles, culmen distinct. Legs and feet moderate.   1. IDIOPSAR BRACHYURUS, nobis.  Entire plumage of the head and body bluish cinereous or plumbeous, darker on the upper parts and lighter on the under parts" (Cassin 1866); "Idiopsar Cassin, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 414. Type, by monotypy, Idiopsar brachyurus Cassin." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 115). In ornithology psar also signifies members of the American Icteridae, formerly united with the starlings Sturnidae (Cassin believed his new bird to be an icterid). Schwenckfeld 1603, used psar as an alternative name for strouthos, the House Sparrow. More recently this bird has been called Andean Boulder-finch.

speculifer / speculifera / speculiferum / speculiferus
Mod. L. speculifer  bearing mirrors  < L. speculum, speculi  mirror  < specere  to look at; -fera  -bearing  < ferre  to bear.

SUBSPECIES

White-winged Diuca-Finch (magnirostris)
SCI Name: Idiopsar speculifer magnirostris
magnirostre / magnirostris
L. magnus  great; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (Galerida).
● ex “Épervier à gros bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 464, and “Great-billed Falcon” of Latham 1781 (Rupornis).

White-winged Diuca-Finch (speculifer)
SCI Name: Idiopsar speculifer speculifer
speculifer / speculifera / speculiferum / speculiferus
Mod. L. speculifer  bearing mirrors  < L. speculum, speculi  mirror  < specere  to look at; -fera  -bearing  < ferre  to bear.