Ochre-rumped Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza yessoensis
Protonym:  Schoenicola yessoënsis Ibis p.161
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  ocrbun1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Swinhoe
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

yesoensis / yessoensis
Yesso / Hokkaido, Japan.

SUBSPECIES

Ochre-rumped Bunting (continentalis)
SCI Name: Emberiza yessoensis continentalis
continentalis / continentis
Mod. L. continentalis  continental, of a continent, of the mainland  < L. continens, continentis  mainland, continent  < continere  to hold together.

Ochre-rumped Bunting (yessoensis)
SCI Name: Emberiza yessoensis yessoensis
yesoensis / yessoensis
Yesso / Hokkaido, Japan.