breweri

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adjective Brewer (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Brewer's ..."

Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Brewer.

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The area supports a number of species locally threatened or at their biogeographic limits, including golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, prairie falcon Falco mexicanus, ferruginous hawk Buteo regalis, loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus, merlin Falco columbarius, Brewers sparrow Spizella breweri and grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum.

Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada 2009
Indeed the only taxon found by Klicka & Zink (1997) to be a novelty of this sort is the Timberline sparrow* Spizella taverneri: it seems to have diverged from S. breweri about 35,000 years ago.

Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
In the next family, the Bee-eaters, is another equally isolated bird, Meropogon forsteni, which combines the characters of African and Indian Bee-eaters, and whose only near ally, Meropogon breweri, was discovered by M.

The Malay Archipelago 2004
The only definite records obtained by Burleigh and Lowery (1942: 209) of _S.b. breweri_ are those of a female and a male taken "near Saltillo" on April 16 and 18.

Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
Miller, Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore (1957: 389) recorded _S.b. breweri_ from 25 mi.

Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
Bee-eaters, and whose only near ally, Meropogon breweri, was discovered by M.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868