Pringle’s Puffback / Dryoscopus pringlii
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Pringle's Puffback
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Protonym: Dryoscopus pringlii Bull.Br.Orn.Club 3 p.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Dryoscopus
Taxonomy Code: pripuf1
Type Locality: Mauungu Wilderness and between Tsavo and Kufumika, Eastern Africa.
Author: Jackson, FJ
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DRYOSCOPUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Black-backed Puffback D. cubla) Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos tree; σκοπος skopos watcher, look-out < σκοπεω skopeō to inspect; "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae. ... Dryoscopus: Lanius cubla Vaill. Afr. pl. 72 1, 2. [u.] s. w." (Boie 1826); "Dryoscopus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Lanius cubla Shaw." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 316).
Var. Drioscopus.
Synon. Chaunonotus.
pringlii
Col. Sir John Wallace Pringle (1863-1938) Chief Inspector of Railways, Uganda 1891-1892 (Dryoscopus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
