The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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AMADINA

(Estrildidae; Ϯ Cut-throat Finch A. fasciata) Corrupt dim. < genus Ammodramus Swainson, 1827, sparrow; the Cut-throat was considered to form a link between Ammodramus and Estrilda Swainson, 1827, waxbill (see Estrilda); "AMADINA.  ...  Bill short, large, conic, entire.  Wings short, rounded; the first quill spurious and very small; the second and third nearly equal and longest.  Tail short, even, or slightly rounded.   Type. Loxia fasciata. Gmelin.  Brown, Ill. of Zool. Pl. 27." (Swainson 1827); "Amadina Swainson, Zool. Journ. iii, p. 349, 1827.  Type by original designation, Loxia fasciata Gmel." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 782). 
Synon. MajaSporothlastes.
● (Estrildidae; syn. Coccopygia † Swee Waxbill C. melanotis) “Genus Amadina, SWAIN.  ...  Am.(Amadina, SWAIN.) melanotis.  Australia [errore].” (Selby 1840); “Amadina “Swain.” Selby, 1840, Cat. Generic Subgeneric Types Aves, p. 20 (not of Swainson, 1827, nor of Sundevall, 1836).  Type, by monotypy, Amadina melanotis Selby, 1840 = Fringilla melanotis Temminck, 1823.” (JAJ 2023).  
● (Estrildidae; syn. Padda † Java Sparrow P. oryzivora) “Amadina Sw. (Lox. oryzivora; — Amandava; — punctularia).” (Sundevall 1836); “Amadina "Swainson" Sundevall, 1836, Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar för år 1835, p. 74 (not of Swainson, 1827).  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1870, Hand-list Genera Species Birds, II, p. 55), Loxia oryzivora Linnaeus, 1758.” (JAJ 2022).


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