Long-tailed reed finch explained

The long-tailed reed finch (Donacospiza albifrons) is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of its genus Donacospiza.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.

Taxonomy

The long-tailed reed finch was formally described in 1817 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Sylvia albifrons.^{[1] [2]} Vieillot based his description on the Cola Aguda del Vientre de Canela that had been described by the Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara in 1805 based on a specimen obtained in Paraguay.^{[3] [4]} The long-tailed reed finch is now the only member of the genus Donacospiza that was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.^{[5] [6]} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek donax meaning "reed" or "cane" with spiza meaning "finch". The specific epithet combines the Latin albus meaning "white" with frons meaning "forehead" or "front".^[7] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.^[6]

External links

• Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the long-tailed reed finch

Notes and References

1. Book: Vieillot, Louis Pierre . Louis Pierre Vieillot . 1817 . Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. . 11 . Paris . Deterville . 276 . 10.5962/bhl.title.20211 . French .
2. Book: Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1970 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 13 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 113 .
3. Book: Azara, Félix de . Félix de Azara . 1805 . Apuntamientos para la historia natural de los páxaros del Paragüay y Rio de la Plata . 2 . Spanish . Madrid . Imprenta de la Hija de Ibarra . 263, No. CCXXXIV .
4. Lopes . Leonardo Esteves . 2017 . Morphological variation of the Long-tailed Reed Finch Donacospiza albifrons (Vieillot, 1817) (Aves: Thraupidae) . Zootaxa . 4329 . 3 . 201–218 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.3.1 . 29242473 .
5. Book: Cabanis, Jean . Jean Cabanis . 1850–1851 . Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt . 1 . German, Latin . Halberstadt . R. Frantz . 136 .
6. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . July 2020 . Tanagers and allies . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 8 November 2020 .
7. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 38, 139.