Tibetan Bunting

Tibetan Bunting / Emberiza koslowi

Tibetan Bunting

Here the details of the Tibetan Bunting named bird below:

SCI Name:  Emberiza koslowi
Protonym:  Emberiza koslowi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 14 p.80
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tibbun1
Type Locality:  Re chu River, ca. lat. 31°25''N., long. 97° 24''E., upper Mekong River, eastern Tibet.
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Publish Year:  1904
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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.

koslowi
Gen. Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (1863-1935) Russian Army, explorer in Central Asia (Emberiza, GarrulaxPrunella, subsp. Tetraogallus himalayensis).