Chestnut Bunting

Chestnut Bunting / Emberiza rutila

Chestnut Bunting

Here the details of the Chestnut Bunting named bird below:

SCI Name:  Emberiza rutila
Protonym:  Emberiza rutila ReiseVersch.Provin.Russ.Reichs 3 p.698
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae /
Taxonomy Code:  chebun1
Type Locality:  Onon River and toward the Mongolian border.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  

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.

rutila
L. rutilus  golden, red, auburn.
● ex “African Heron” of Latham 1787 (?syn. Ardea sp.)
● ex “Habia dentudo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 91 (Phytotoma).