Meadow Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza cioides
Protonym:  Emberiza cioides Bull.Acad.Imp.Sci.St.Petersb.Physico-Math. 1 col.363
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  meabun1
Type Locality:  Siberia.
Author:  von Brandt
Publish Year:  1843
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.

cioides
Specific name Emberiza cia Linnaeus, 1766; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling (Emberiza).

SUBSPECIES

Meadow Bunting (tarbagataica)
SCI Name: Emberiza cioides tarbagataica
tarbagataica
Tarbagatai Mts., eastern Kazakhstan / northern Xinjiang, China.

Meadow Bunting (cioides)
SCI Name: Emberiza cioides cioides
cioides
Specific name Emberiza cia Linnaeus, 1766; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling (Emberiza).

Meadow Bunting (weigoldi)
SCI Name: Emberiza cioides weigoldi
weigoldi / weigoldicus
Dr Max Hugo Weigold (1886-1973) German zoologist, pioneer bird-ringer, collector in China and Tibet (the first European to see a live Giant Panda) (subsp. Alauda gulgula, syn. Carduelis carduelis parva, subsp. Emberiza cioides, syn. Galerida cristata subtaurica, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Lophophanes cristatus, syn. Luscinia svecica, syn. Motacilla citreola calcarata, syn. Nannus troglodytes, subsp. Phylloscopus fuscatus, subsp. Poecile montanus, syn. Poecile montanus weigoldicus, subsp. Schoeniparus brunneus).

Meadow Bunting (castaneiceps)
SCI Name: Emberiza cioides castaneiceps
castaneiceps
L. castaneus  chestnut-coloured  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

Meadow Bunting (ciopsis)
SCI Name: Emberiza cioides ciopsis
ciopsis
Specific name Emberiza cia Linnaeus, 1766; Gr. -οψις -opsis  appearance (subsp. Emberiza cioides).