Yellow-fronted Canary

SCI Name:  Crithagra mozambica
Protonym:  Fringilla mozambica Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.163
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  yefcan
Type Locality:  Mozambique.
Author:  Statius Muller
Publish Year:  1776
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.

mozambica / mozambicus / mozambiquus
Mozambique  < Portuguese Ilha de Moçambique, a thriving Arab port at the time of Vasco da Gama's visit  < Ali Musa ibn Mbiki (fl. 1498) local sultan.
● ex “Serin de Mozambique” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 364 (Crithagra).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-fronted Canary (caniceps)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica caniceps
caniceps
L. canus  grey; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

Yellow-fronted Canary (punctigula)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica punctigula
punctigula / punctigulus
L. punctum  spot  < pungere  to puncture; gula throat.
● ex “Pic rayé de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 613, “Petit pic rayé de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Cayenne Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (Colaptes).

Yellow-fronted Canary (tando)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica tando
tandae / tando
N’Dalla Tando (= Vila Salazar), northern Angola.

Yellow-fronted Canary (vansoni)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica vansoni
vansoni
Dr Georges van Son (1898-1967) Dutch entomologist, at Transvaal Mus. 1925-1967 (subsp. Crithagra mozambica).

Yellow-fronted Canary (barbata)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica barbata
barbata
L. barbatus  bearded  < barba  beard (e.g. distinctive throat patch; moustachial or beard-like markings; puffy or elongated throat feathers; lengthy or numerous rictal bristles) (see barbatus).
● "die Kehlfedern sind auffallend lang  ...  Da über die Herkunft keine sicheren Nachrichten vorliegen, so kann zunächst nur durch diese kurze Beschreibung auf die eigentümliche Form aufmerksam gemacht werden, die ich ihrer langen Kehlfedern wegen mit C. barbata bezeichnen möchte." (Reichenow 1896) (subsp. Alectoris barbara).
● "E merita speciale considerazione il mento pennuto  ...  Per questi motivi io credo di possedere il tipo di una specie non ancora descritta, alla quale attribuisco il nome di G. barbata, considerando più importante di ogni altro carattere quello del mento pennuto." (Ghigi 1905) (subsp. Guttera edouardi).
● “Similar to Penelope argyrotis Bonap. but much darker throughout, the chin and upper throat feathered, wholly concealing the skin” (Chapman 1921) (Penelope).
● "Str. capite lævi, rostro iridibusque flavis, corpore cinereo, gula regioneque periophthalmica atris, remige sesquialtera serrata." (Latham 1790) (syn. Strix nebulosa lapponica).

Yellow-fronted Canary (samaliyae)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica samaliyae
samaliyae
Nyanja (Zambia) name samaliya for a spirit of nature (Martin Schneider in litt.) (subsp. Aplopelia larvata, subsp. Crithagra mozambica). 

Yellow-fronted Canary (grotei)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica grotei
grotei
Hermann Grote (1882-1951) German director of sisal plantation in German East Africa 1908-1913, linguist, ornithologist (Alcippe, subsp. Anthus cinnamomeus, subsp. Crithagra mozambica, subsp. Dessonornis macclounii, subsp. Hypsipetes madagascariensis, syn. Luscinia svecica volgae, syn. Muscicapa adusta pumila, syn. Phyllastrephus fischeri, subsp. Pternistis hildebrandti, subsp. Pytilia melba, syn. Streptopelia vinacea).

Yellow-fronted Canary (gommaensis)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica gommaensis
gommaensis
Gomma, south-western Ethiopia.

Yellow-fronted Canary (mozambica)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica mozambica
mozambica / mozambicus / mozambiquus
Mozambique  < Portuguese Ilha de Moçambique, a thriving Arab port at the time of Vasco da Gama's visit  < Ali Musa ibn Mbiki (fl. 1498) local sultan.
● ex “Serin de Mozambique” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 364 (Crithagra).

Yellow-fronted Canary (granti)
SCI Name: Crithagra mozambica granti
granti
● William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863-1924) English ornithologist at BMNH 1882-1918 (subsp. Acanthisitta chloris, subsp. Accipiter nisus, subsp. Aerodramus vanikorensis, syn. Alopecoenas beccarii solomonensis, subsp. Camaroptera chloronota, Horizocerus, syn. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Melaenornis pallida parvus, subsp. Microptilotis mimikae, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, syn. Neocossyphus poensis praepectoralis, Ninox, syn. Oriolus szalayi, syn. Pellorneum ruficeps olivaceum, Penelope, subsp. Ptiloprora plumbea, Ptilopsis, subsp. Rhipidura rufifrons (ex Rhipidura harterti Ogilvie-Grant), subsp. Sericornis spilodera, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris, Sula).
● Capt. Claude Henry Baxter Grant (1878-1958) British ornithologist at BMNH 1898-1903, 1932-1958, in East Africa 1916-1932 (subsp. Bradypterus lopezi, subsp. Crithagra mozambica, subsp. Cyanomitra olivacea, syn. Malimbus malimbicus, subsp. Phoeniculus damarensis, syn. Pyrenestes ostrinus minor, subsp. Sheppardia poensis, subsp. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Terpsiphone viridis, subsp. Treron delalandii).
● Lt.-Col. James Augustus Grant (1827-1892) British Army, explorer with Speke in East Africa 1860-1863 (syn. Guttera pucherani).
● Robert Grant (1854-1923) Scottish miner and immigrant to Australia 1879, taxidermist at Australian Mus. 1887-1917, collector, explorer (subsp. Paradisaea raggiana).