Tristram's Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza tristrami
Protonym:  Emberiza tristrami Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.441
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  tribun1
Type Locality:  Amoy [= Hsiamen] , Fukien, China.
Author:  Swinhoe
Publish Year:  1870
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.

tristrami / tristramii
Revd. Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906) Canon of Durham, traveller, naturalist, antiquarian, early supporter of Darwin (syn. Coenocorypha aucklandica, Dicaeum, syn. Edolisoma salomonis (ex Edoliisoma salomonis Tristram, 1879), Emberiza, Hydrobates, subsp. Micropsitta finschii, Myzomela, Onychognathus, ‡subsp. Ptilinopus mercierii, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).