Regent Whistler

SCI Name:  Pachycephala schlegelii
Protonym:  Pachycephala Schlegelii Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 4 p.43
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pachycephalidae / Pachycephala
Taxonomy Code:  regwhi1
Type Locality:  'Interior New Guinea'' [= Arfak Mountains] .
Author:  Schlegel
Publish Year:  1871
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PACHYCEPHALA
(Pachycephalidae; Ϯ Golden Whistler P. pectoralis) Gr. παχυς pakhus  large, thick; κεφαλη kephalē  head; from the appearance of their large rounded heads the Indomalayan and Australasian whistlers were formerly known as 'thickheads'; "The interval betweeen the present groups and those of the Pari, where we entered on the family [Pipridæ], appears to be filled up by a race of birds peculiar to New Holland, and hitherto uncharacterized, of which the Muscicapa pectoralis, Lath. is the type*. These, uniting many external characters, at least, both of the Berry-Eaters and Flycatchers, exhibit also in general appearance a considerable resemblance to the Pari, and will be found, I conjecture, to be the connecting bond between all these groups.  ...  * Mr. Swainson has lately formed this group into a genus by the name of Pachycephala.  Nov. 1824." (Vigors 1825); "Genus. PACHYCEPHALA*. Swains. MSS.  ... Caput tumidiusculum.  ...  In their general appearance some of the species exhibit a resemblance to the birds of the genus Procnias, Ill., while by the puffed-out appearance of the feathers about the head, we trace an approximation to some of the Linnean Pari.  ...  * παχυς crassus, and κεφαλη caput" (Vigors & Horsfield 1827). 
Var. Pachycephalus. 
Synon. Alisterornis, Gilbertornis, Hylocharis, Hyloterpe, Lewinornis, Malacolestes, Mattingleya, Musciterpe, Muscitrea, Mutevodia, Pachycilodryas, Psaltricephus, Pucherania, Timixos.

schlegelii
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Antigone canadensis, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus, Emarginata, syn. Eos rubra, syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi rhodops, syn. Halcyon coromanda, Pachycephala, Peliperdix, syn. Tanysiptera galatea riedelii, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus) (see schlegeli).

SUBSPECIES

Regent Whistler (schlegelii)
SCI Name: Pachycephala schlegelii schlegelii
schlegelii
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Antigone canadensis, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus, Emarginata, syn. Eos rubra, syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi rhodops, syn. Halcyon coromanda, Pachycephala, Peliperdix, syn. Tanysiptera galatea riedelii, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus) (see schlegeli).

Regent Whistler (obscurior)
SCI Name: Pachycephala schlegelii obscurior
obscurior / obscuriora
L. obscurior, obscurioris  darker  < comp. obscurus  dark, obscure.

Regent Whistler (cyclopum)
SCI Name: Pachycephala schlegelii cyclopum
cyclopum
Cyclops Mts., western New Guinea.