Ashy-fronted Bulbul / Pycnonotus cinereifrons

Ashy-fronted Bulbul / Pycnonotus cinereifrons

Ashy-fronted Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus cinereifrons
Protonym:  Brachypus cinereifrons Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part III, Meeting of May 21, 1878 p. 617-618
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  asfbul1
Type Locality:  Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
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Publish Year:  1878
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DEFINITIONS

PYCNONOTUS
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Cape Bulbul P. capensis) Gr. πυκνος puknos  thick, compact; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back; alluding to the thickly feathered back of the Cape Bulbul and many other bulbuls; "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae.   ...   Pycnonotus Kuhl: Turdus capensis Lin. Vaill. Afr. pl. 105 u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Pycnonotus "Kuhl" Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 19, p. 973. Type, by monotypy, Turdus capensis Linnaeus." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 223).  
Var. PychnonotusPicnonotus, Picncnotus.   
Synon. Alcurus, Bonapartia, Bostrycholophus, Brachypus, Centrolophus, Crocopsis, Elathea, Gymnocrotaphus, Haematornis, Hemitarsus, Ixodia, Kelaartia, Loidorusa, Malayornis, Meropixus, Mesolophus, Molpastes, Nok, Oreoctistes, Otocompsa, Pachycephalixus, Phacelias, Rubigula, Sphagias, Squamatornis, Stictognathus, Trachycomus, Xanthixus.

cinereifrons
L. cinereus  ash-grey  < cinis, cineris  ashes; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.