Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch

sicalis citrina

Emberizidae · Emberizine Sparrows

Disc 2 · 2001 listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

The account

Description

12 cm. Male olive above, the mantle streaked darker. Forecrown and underparts yellow. Breast tinged olive. Terminal half of the inner webs of the two outer tail feathers white.

The female has an olive yellow face. Brownish upperparts with black streaks. Underparts pale yellow, streaked dark on breast. The only Yellow-Finch with dark streaks on a yellow underside.

Male Disc 3 · 2006
Female Disc 3 · 2006

Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch at 1 locality.

Historical checklist localities on the disc's own area map — the red dots the original program drew, placed by its recovered projection. Not a range map: it shows the places whose checklists record the bird, nothing more.

Itirapina ITSB

How the map was made

The original program computed each red dot at display time from the locality's coordinates, using its map library and one of five base maps drawn for the screen widths of the day. That library's projection — an oblique rotation of the sphere about the map's own centre, 23.7°S 47.4°W — was read from the program and checked against the graticule the same program drew into the base maps: it reproduces every grid intersection to within about a pixel. The dots here use that projection on the 1280-pixel base map, with the coordinates the discs record. Nothing was placed by hand, no modern map data was used, and a place whose coordinate is incomplete, out of range or beyond the map's edge is listed rather than guessed.

The discs carried location maps only; none shows a distribution or range.

Voice

Call 'ziii zii', a sequence of 8 zi notes (vocalization # 2); song a short repeated phrase given from perch or from flight,'ziuu zi-zi- u - zu-iii'.

Behavior

Forages on the ground, often in flocks.

Habitat and status

Local and rare, apparently due to introduced grass species (¹¹⁹). Grassland, fields, agricultural regions, cerrado.

Distribution

Local inland. In Estado São Paulo found at Itirapina, Brotas, Analandia, Itapetininga, Rio Verde, São Jose do Barreiro (¹¹⁹), Itararé (⁴⁰). To 2000 meters

Decoded from the disc's own bytes. Each part is shown under the heading the disc files it under, and the wording, spelling and punctuation are the author's.

Vocalizations

Call. Serra do Cipo, 11/16/98. Sunny, 20°C. Open scrub.
Call, March 8, 1997, Parque Estadual do Ibitipica, Lima Duarte, MG, in campo rupestre. Recorded by Luis Fabio Silveira.
Song, May second, 1991. Chilcani, Dept. La Paz, Bolivia. Recorded by David Willis.

Recording files on the disc

13242.mp3 Call. Serra do Cipo, 11/16/98. Sunny, 20°C. Open scrub.
9907.mp3 Call, March 8, 1997, Parque Estadual do Ibitipica, Lima Duarte, MG, in campo rupestre. Recorded by Luis Fabio Silveira.
8777.mp3 Song, May second, 1991. Chilcani, Dept. La Paz, Bolivia. Recorded by David Willis.

More images

Sonogram of song Disc 3 · 2006

Across the three discs

The work was published on three discs — Disc 2 in 2001, Disc 3 in 2006 and Disc 1 in 2011. Where they differ, that is a difference between historical releases, and it is never merged away. The 2011 disc is not treated as correcting the earlier ones.

Which discs list this bird

Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list

How that was established

Disc 2 · 2001: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 3 · 2006: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 1 · 2011: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1

The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.

The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision

The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.

The work's own taxonomy

The discs carried three parallel name schemes. All three are shown as recovered; none is a modern taxonomy and none has been updated.

Scheme	Scientific name	English name	Family
WORLD	sicalis citrina	Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch	Emberizidae
CLEMENTS	sicalis citrina	Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch	Emberizidae
AOU_HM	sicalis citrina	Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch	Emberizidae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0440
Account identifier: seb_account_0440
Account number on the disc: 440
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative