Emberiza Goslingi Bird

English Name:  Gosling's Bunting
Latin Name:  Emberiza goslingi
Protonym:  Fringillaria goslingi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 16 p.124
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  gosbun1
Type Locality:  Mbima, northern Nigeria; not on Uelle River as stated in original description, vide Chapin, 1954, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 75B, p. 619.
Author:  Alexander
Publish Year:  1906
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.

goslingi
Capt. George Bennett Gosling (1872-1906) British Army, naturalist, explorer on the Niger-Nile expedition 1904-1906 (Apalis, syn. Caprimulgus tristigma sharpei, Emberiza).