Rufous-backed Bunting

Rufous-backed Bunting / Emberiza jankowskii

Rufous-backed Bunting

Here the details of the Rufous-backed Bunting named bird below:

SCI Name:  Emberiza jankowskii
Protonym:  Emberiza jankowskii Ibis p.317 pl.8
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rubbun1
Type Locality:  near Sidemi, south of Vladivostok, in the vicinity of the Korean-Manchurian border, Maritime Territory.
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Publish Year:  1888
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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, EmbritzaEmbriza, 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.

jankowskii / jankowskyi
Michał Jankowski (1842-1912) Polish naturalist exiled to Siberia 1863-1903 (syn. Cygnus columbianus bewickii, Emberiza, syn. Pica pica sericea).