Richard said “PS. Just noticed that although the taxonomic recommendations propose the transfer of Carpodacus erythrinus to Erythrina Brehm 1829, the tree diagram indicates transfer to Erythrospiza. I assume that the former is correct.”
Sulla seconda edizione del Regno Animale Barone Cuvier osservazioni di Carlo Luciano Bonaparte principe di Musignano. Bologna Tip. Marsigli. 8ͦ di pag. 175.
(Inserite negli Annali di Storia Naturale, Fascicoli 10, 11 e 12. Bologna 1830); Saggio di una .
“Erythrospiza, Bp., was established before the " Saggio," pp. 53, 141 (1831), in the work which bears the title ' Sulla seconda edizione del Regno Animale del Barone Cuvier; Osservazioni," p. 80 (1830), (cf. Ibis, 1888, p. 320, note).” Tomas Salvidori .
Page 212 of :
http://books.google.de/books?id=-HB...tcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q=Erythrospiza&f=false .
Persisto nell' idea di formare un gruppo di queste Fringillo-Pyrrhulae che si tingono di ros■o ( Vedi le mie Osservazioni sulla Synopsis degli Uccelli Messicani del Sig. Swainson , nella Contribuzioni del Liceo Macluriano nel qual luogo f ho chiamato Erythrospiza. )
Persisted in the 'idea of forming a group of these Fringilla Pyrrhulae- ros, which are colored or ■ (See my remarks on the Synopsis of the Birds of Mexico Mr. Swainson, in Contributions of the School Maclure in which place I called Erythrospiza .)
My group Erythrospiza species include the following,
t. Purple finch, Gm. (Wils. plate. 7. £ 4. M. to. Feather wedding t 4 »- f-3 in winter) WADA. Week
a-Pyrrhula frontalis, Nob. pl. 6. f. 1. m. fye ( Fringilla frontalis, Say nec Auct.) WADA. Sept. to the rocky mountains. Mr. Swainson was found in Mexico.
Self Pyrrhula githaginea, Tecirn. with. 4 00, (Fringilla githaginea, Licht.) d 'Egypt , and Nubia, and it sometimes shows in the south of Europe 'as guarantee. It is also figured in the great work on Egypt tab. 5. f. 8., Except that by Mr. Roux.
4. Loxia sibirica Falck. voy. ut. p. 3ob. t. 18 f, 1. and 1. m. and f. Pali. Gm. Lath. (Pyrrhula longicauda, Temme.) Siberia and Japan in the winter migrates to the southern European Russia also, and even Hungary.
5. Loxia rosea. Pali. Nahum. n3. f. 3. (Pyrrhula rosy , Temiti.) of Siberia and of the 'Eastern Europe' s: 1 visit accidentally 'Hungary.
6. Loxia Erythrina, Pali. Nahum. pl. n3. fia ( Pyrrhula Erythrina , Temme.) ( Loxia cardinalis, nec Besek Auct.) of the Arctic regions of Asia and Europe, common in some provinces of Russia is seen by accident in Germany.
7. Pyrrhula synoica, Temme. [Bouvreuil social) more. with. 37S. f. 1. maf d 'Egypt.
To secure these species probably should be expanded.
8. Loxia rubicilla, Lath. Gmel. Daud. Shaw. (Nov. Petr Comm. XIX. P. 463. T Ia.) Caneasian Gros-beak English Writers, beo du Gros Caucase the French, even when it is not identical with any of the above, for example with ' Erythrina.
Newton says: “Bonaparte stated {Proc. Zool. Soc.1837, p. 101) that in 1826 he had proposed the name paradiseus for this species, and had communicated a notice of it to an American journal. There seems no reason to doubt his statement, and the journal was most likely the Contributions of the Maclurian Lyceum, published at Philadelphia (1827-29), to which, as he says in his Sulla seconda edizione del Regno Animale del Barone Cuvier Osservazioni (Bologna: 1830, p. 80), he sent some remarks on Swainson's Synopsis of the Birds of Mexico, and believed they had been printed there. But these Contributions unfortunately came to an end with the third number, and the only article by Bonaparte they contain is a Catalogue of the Birds of the United States (pp. 8-34), so that his criticism of Swainson's paper (which had appeared in the Philosophical Magazine for 1827), though doubtless accepted for publication, has never seen the light.”
Here is the Contributions of the Maclurian Lyceum:
http://books.google.com/books?id=5EJDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false .
C. L. Bonaparte wrote Swainson on July 30, 1830 from Florence, concerning notes on Swainson’s Mexican Birds.
The use of Erythrospiza in Sulla seconde etc. has no description, since Bonaparte thought his description got published, but I think it is not nomen nudem because he lists all the species in the genus.
But Erythrina has priority as used in Isis by Brehm in 1828 and 1829 for E. albifrons and rubrifrons in 1829 and E. rosea and rubrifrons in 1828. Priority is confirmed by Bonaparte referring to Erythrina in Sulla seconda etc.