Aimophila

Aimophila
	Rufous-crowned sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passerellidae
Genus:	Aimophila; Swainson, 1837
Species
	See text

Aimophila is a genus of American sparrows. The derivation of the genus name is from aimos/αιμος "thicket" and phila/φιλα "loving".[1]

Some species that were formerly classified in Aimophila are now considered to be in the genus Peucaea.[2]

Species in taxonomic order

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Aimophila ruficeps	Rufous-crowned sparrow	southwestern United States and Mexico
Aimophila notosticta	Oaxaca sparrow	Mexico
Aimophila rufescens	Rusty sparrow	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.

gollark: They just don't make sense. Do they go up or down or sideways? What if I put in a really, really big number - can it reach the thing it asymptotically tends towards *then*? What if I want it to output a different value? Are bees holomorphic?

gollark: However, I don't know how asymptotes work, so I'm just going for slightly increasing it each time.

gollark: It must asymptotically approach 6.1 as it approaches completion.

gollark: 6.00000000003.

gollark: If you just clone my body, it won't actually contain bees.

References

Media related to Aimophila at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Aimophila at Wikispecies

Holloway JE (2003). Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-88192-600-0.
DaCosta, Jeffrey M.; Spellman, Garth M.; Escalante, Patricia; Klicka, John (1 March 2009). "A molecular systematic revision of two historically problematic songbird clades: Aimophila and Pipilo" (PDF). Journal of Avian Biology. 40 (2): 206–216. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04514.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 15 March 2013.

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[1] Holloway JE (2003). Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-88192-600-0.

[2] DaCosta, Jeffrey M.; Spellman, Garth M.; Escalante, Patricia; Klicka, John (1 March 2009). "A molecular systematic revision of two historically problematic songbird clades: Aimophila and Pipilo" (PDF). Journal of Avian Biology. 40 (2): 206–216. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04514.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 15 March 2013.