Emberiza Sulphurata Bird

English Name:  Yellow Bunting
Latin Name:  Emberiza sulphurata
Protonym:  Emberiza sulphurata FaunaJap.Aves[Siebold] p.100 pl.60
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  yelbun1
Type Locality:  Japan.
Author:  Temminck & Schlegel
Publish Year:  1848
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

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.

sulphurata / sulphuratus
L. sulphuratus  sulphurated  < sulphur, sulphuris sulphur.
● ex “Grosbec du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of Brisson 1760 (Crithagra).
● ex “Pie-griesche jaune de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760 (Pitangus).