Spot-necked Bulbul / Pycnonotus tympanistrigus

Spot-necked Bulbul / Pycnonotus tympanistrigus

Spot-necked Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus tympanistrigus
Protonym:  Ixos tympanistrigus Tijdschr.Nat.Gesch.Phys. 2(1835) p.353
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  spnbul1
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
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Publish Year:  1836
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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.

tympanistrigus / tympanistrugus
L. tympanium  pearl, precious stone shaped like a tambourine  < Gr. τυμπανιον tumpanion  pearl  < dim. τυμπανον tumpanon  kettle-drum; striga  striation.