Pallas's Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza pallasi
Protonym:  Cynchramus pallasi Mus.Hein. 1(1850) p.130
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  palbun
Type Locality:  near Selenga River, Transbaikalia.
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1851
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.

pallasi
Petrus Simon Pallas (1741–1811), widely known as Peter Simon Pallas, German naturalist in the Russian service, and explorer in Siberia and Kirghizia (syn. Catharus guttatus, syn. Cyanopica cyanus, Emberiza (ex "Emberiza schoeniclus var. β" of Pallas 1811), subsp. Guttera edouardi, syn. Muscicapa dauurica, syn. Passer hispaniolensis transcaspicus, syn. Surnia ulula) (see pallasii).  

SUBSPECIES

Pallas's Bunting (polaris)
SCI Name: Emberiza pallasi polaris
polaris
Mod. L. polaris of the North Pole, polar < Med. L. polaris heavenly < L. polus pole, end of an axis.

Pallas's Bunting (pallasi)
SCI Name: Emberiza pallasi pallasi
pallasi
Petrus Simon Pallas (1741–1811), widely known as Peter Simon Pallas, German naturalist in the Russian service, and explorer in Siberia and Kirghizia (syn. Catharus guttatus, syn. Cyanopica cyanus, Emberiza (ex "Emberiza schoeniclus var. β" of Pallas 1811), subsp. Guttera edouardi, syn. Muscicapa dauurica, syn. Passer hispaniolensis transcaspicus, syn. Surnia ulula) (see pallasii).  

Pallas's Bunting (lydiae)
SCI Name: Emberiza pallasi lydiae
lydiae
Female eponym; Russian description not yet translated (Portenko 1929, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. URSS, 29 (1928), 78) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); perhaps after a relative of the Russian ornithologists Leonid A. Portenko or Petr P.  Sushkin (subsp. Emberiza pallasi).