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Amandava
''Amandava'' is a genus of the estrildid finches. These birds are found in dense grass or scrub in Africa and South Asia. They are gregarious seed-eaters with short, red bills. In earlier literature, ''amadavat'' and ''amidavad'' have been used. The name amandava, along with ''amadavat'' and ''amidavad'' are all corruptions of Ahmedabad, a city in Gujarat, India from where the first few specimens of the red munia ''Amandava amandava'' were obtained. Taxonomy The genus ''Amandava'' was introduced in 1836 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth for the red avadavat. The genus in mentioned in a footnote to a page of an edition of Gilbert White's '' The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne'' that Blythe edited. The name is derived by tautomony with the binomial name ''Fringilla amandava'' introduced for the red avadavat by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The word ''amandava'' is a corruption of Ahmedabad, a city in the Indian state of Gujarat. The genus ''Amandava'' is sister to the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Avadavat
The red avadavat (''Amandava amandava''), red munia or strawberry finch, is a sparrow-sized bird of the family Estrildidae. It is found in the open fields and grasslands of tropical Asia and is popular as a cage bird due to the colourful plumage of the males in their breeding season. It breeds in the Indian Subcontinent in the monsoon season. The species name of ''amandava'' and the common name of ''avadavat'' are derived from the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, from where these birds were exported into the pet trade in former times. Taxonomy The red avadavat was Species description, formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Fringilla amandava''. Linnaeus based his description on "The Amaduvads Cock and Hen" that has been described and illustrated in 1738 by the English naturalist Eleazar Albin. Linnaeus specified the typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |