Editing Java sparrow (section)

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Rice sparrow 2023 3 12.webm|thumb|thumbtime=10|A couple of Java rice sparrows in a cage, 2023]]
The Java sparrow 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]] ''Loxia oryzivora''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=173 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727080 }}</ref> The specific epithet combines [[Latin]] ''oryza '' meaning "rice" with ''-vorus'' meaning "eating".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=285 }}</ref> Linnaeus based his description on the "Padda or Rice-bird" that had been described and illustrated in 1743 by the English naturalist [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]] in his ''A Natural History of Uncommon Birds''. Edwards believed that his specimens had come from China but mentions the common name "Java sparrow".<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1743 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=Part I | pages=41, 42, Plates 41, 42 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50240671 }}</ref> The species was reclassified to the genus ''Padda'' in 2020.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Olsson|first1=U.|last2=Alström|first2=P.|year=2020|title=A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=146|pages=106757|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106757 |pmid=32028027 |bibcode=2020MolPE.14606757O |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106757}}</ref>