Lark-like Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza impetuani
Protonym:  Emberiza impetuani Rep.Exped.Centr.Afr. p.48
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  lalbun1
Type Locality:  'country between Nu. Gariep and Tropic''; restricted to eastern Bechuanaland by Macdonald, 1957, Contrib. Ornith. Western S. Africa, p. 169.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1836
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.

impetuani
Zulu name Im’tiyane for various finches and waxbills; "The names given by the Natives to the objects above described, I have adopted as the trivial ones" (A. Smith 1836).  According to Clinning 1989, the word is a Tswana name for a waterhole in West Griqualand, Cape Province, South Africa (Emberiza).

SUBSPECIES

Lark-like Bunting (eremica)
SCI Name: Emberiza impetuani eremica
eremica
Gr. ερημικος erēmikos  living in a desert  < ερημια erēmia  desert.

Lark-like Bunting (impetuani)
SCI Name: Emberiza impetuani impetuani
impetuani
Zulu name Im’tiyane for various finches and waxbills; "The names given by the Natives to the objects above described, I have adopted as the trivial ones" (A. Smith 1836).  According to Clinning 1989, the word is a Tswana name for a waterhole in West Griqualand, Cape Province, South Africa (Emberiza).

Lark-like Bunting (sloggetti)
SCI Name: Emberiza impetuani sloggetti
sloggetti
Lt.-Gen. Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett (1857-1929) British Army surgeon, in the Sudan 1896-1898 and South Africa 1899-1903 (subsp. Emberiza impetuani).