Chestnut-eared Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza fucata
Protonym:  Emberiza fucata ReiseVersch.Provin.Russ.Reichs 3 p.698
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  chebun2
Type Locality:  at Onon and Ingoda rivers, near Shilka, Chita, southeastern Siberia.
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EMBERIZA
(Emberizidae; Ϯ Yellowhammer E. citrinella) Old Swiss German name Embritz for a bunting  < Old German Ammer  bunting. "97. EMBERIZA.  Rostrum conicum.  Mandibulæ basi deorsum a se invicem discedentes: inferiore lateribus inflexo-coarctata; superiore angustiore." (Linnaeus 1758); "Emberiza Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 177. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, ed. 1, p. 47), Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 5). Linnaeus's Emberiza comprised fourteen species (E. nivalis, E. Calandra, E. Hortulana, E. Citrinella, E. Orix, E. Quelea, E. militaris, E. atrata, E. familiaris, E. flaveola, E. psittacea, E. paradisæa, E. Ciris, E. Alario).  
Var. Emberyza, Emberitza, Embritza, Embriza, Emberisa, Emeberiza.   
Synon. Buscarla, Chrysophrys, Cia, Cirlus, Citrinella, Cosmospina, Cristemberiza, Crithophaga, Cynchramus, Fringillaria, Fringilloides, Glycyspina, Granativora, Hortulana, Hortulanus, Hylaespiza, Hypocentor, Latoucheornis, Melophus, Miliaria, Ocyris, Onychospina, Orospina, Pityornis, Polymitra, Pyrrhulorhyncha, Schaenicola, Schoeniclus, Spina, Spodiospina, Tisa.

fucata / fucatus
L. fucatus  painted  < fucare  to paint red.

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-eared Bunting (arcuata)
SCI Name: Emberiza fucata arcuata
arcuata / arcuatum / arcuatus
L. arcuatus  bow-shaped, curved  < arcuare  to shape like a bow  < arcus  bow.
● ex “Croissant” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Crescent Finch” of Latham 1783 (syn. Passer melanurus).
● ex “Crescent Thrush” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

Chestnut-eared Bunting (fucata)
SCI Name: Emberiza fucata fucata
fucata / fucatus
L. fucatus  painted  < fucare  to paint red.

Chestnut-eared Bunting (kuatunensis)
SCI Name: Emberiza fucata kuatunensis
kuatunensis
Kuatun, north-western Fohkien (= Kuan-t’un, Fujian), China.