Vincent's Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza vincenti
Protonym:  Fringillaria capensis vincenti Bull.Br.Orn.Club 52 p.144
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  vinbun1
Type Locality:  Zobrue [=Z6bue], Mozambique.
Author:  Lowe, PR
Publish Year:  1932
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, 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.

vincenti
● St Vincent, Lesser Antilles (subsp. Allenia fusca).
● Col. A. W. “Jack” Vincent (1904-1999) English ornithologist, conservationist, collector, settled in South Africa 1937-1999 (subsp. Calendulauda africanoides, syn. Campethera scriptoricauda, syn. Cisticola lateralis modestus, syn. Cyanomitra olivacea ragazzii, subsp. Emberiza capensis, subsp. Phyllastrephus flavostriatus, syn. Pyrenestes minor).