Emberiza Cineracea Bird

English Name:  Cinereous Bunting
Latin Name:  Emberiza cineracea
Protonym:  Emberiza cineracea Vogelfang p.114
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  cinbun1
Type Locality:  Smyrna [= Izmir], Turkey.
Author:  Brehm, CL
Publish Year:  1855
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.

cineracea / cineraceum / cineraceus
L. cineraceus  ash-grey  < cinis, cineris  ashes.
● ex “Cotinga cendré” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Lipaugus vociferans).
● ex “Cinereous Godwit” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Tringa nebularia).

SUBSPECIES

Cinereous Bunting (Gray-bellied)
Latin Name: Emberiza cineracea cineracea
cineracea / cineraceum / cineraceus
L. cineraceus  ash-grey  < cinis, cineris  ashes.
● ex “Cotinga cendré” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Lipaugus vociferans).
● ex “Cinereous Godwit” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Tringa nebularia).

Cinereous Bunting (Yellow-bellied)
Latin Name: Emberiza cineracea semenowi
semenovi / semenowi
● Pyotr Pyotrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827-1914) Russian geographer, explorer in Central Asia 1856-1857, entomologist, Vice-Chairman/ Chairman of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society 1873-1914 (syn. Cettia cetti albiventris, subsp. Ketupa zeylonensis, syn. Oenanthe chrysopygia, syn. Oenanthe monacha, syn. Phoenicurus phoenicurus samamisicus, syn. Sylvia mystacea rubescens).
● Andrei Pyotrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1866-1942) Russian entomologist, taxonomist, explorer in Transcaspia and Turkistan 1888-1889 (subsp. Coracias garrulus, subsp. Emberiza cineracea, syn. Otus brucei).