Vieillot's Barbet

SCI Name:  Lybius vieilloti
Protonym:  Pogonius vieilloti Zool.Misc. 2 p.104 pl.97
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Lybiidae / Lybius
Taxonomy Code:  viebar1
Type Locality:  Africa = Ethiopia by designation of Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1902, p. 426.
Author:  Leach
Publish Year:  1815
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LYBIUS
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Black-billed Barbet L. guifsobalito) Gr. λιβυος libuos unidentified bird, possibly allied to the woodpeckers, mentioned by Aristotle and Aristophanes; L. Libya or Libua  Africa; "Libyum novum Avium genus ⁿ⁾   ...   ⁿ⁾ Neque minus hæc avis mirum confusarum notarum exemplum est. Rostrum Loxiæ Coccothraustis forma, eadem cum illa durioribus nucibus vivendi ratio, iidem mores; unde Coccothrausti subjunxit BUFFONIUS T. 111. p. 471. Sed rostrum illi serratim incisum margine, quod nulli ex Passeribus competit, nec ea nota alii propior est quam Trogonii, cui & duobus modo digitis anterioribus congruit: at unum tantum posteriorem nacta est, in quo cum Pico tridactylo & Alcedine tridactyla convenit. Guifsobalito, nominis abyssinici partem, avi nomen fecit BUFFONIUS, a clar. Anglo equite BRUCE adlatæ, cui inter Picas sine dubio locandæ, quum latinum quoque genericum nomen invenire æquum sit, placuit Lybius, quæ vox & patriam exprimit & ARISTOTELI jam adhibita est. Facile quoque erit locum in tabula reperire: inter Bucerotem & Trogonem serratirostres aves poni poterit, punctataque linea & cum hoc connecti & cum Pico tridactylo; dein alia ad sinistram excurrat usque ad marginem tabulæ, ubi stellula pingatur, quæ inflexa tabula ostendet locum ubi in opposito latere alia inscribenda erit, cui aliquanto sursum nunc movenda Lox. Coccothraustes respondeat." (Hermann 1783); "Lybius Hermann, Tabl. Affin. Anim., 1783, p. 217, note n. Type, by monotypy, Lybius guifsobalito Hermann." (Peters 1948, VI, 55). 
Synon. Balitus, Eolybius, Erythrobucco, Hyreus, Laimodon, Leucolybius, Melanobucco, Pogonodon.

vieilloti / vieillotii
Louis Pierre Vieillot (1748-1830) French naturalist, collector (Coccyzus (ex Saurothera vetula Vieillot, 1819), syn. Colibri serrirostris, syn. Dendroica erithachorides, syn. Leuconotopicus borealis, syn. Lophura rufa, Lybius (ex “Barbu Rubicon” of Levaillant 1807), subsp. Mellisuga minima, syn. Molothrus oryzivorus, syn. Pachyramphus viridis, syn. Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea, syn. Pyrrhula pyrrhula europoea (ex Pyrrhula europoea Vieillot, 1816), Sphecotheres, syn. Strepera versicolor, syn. Tachuris rubrigastra, subsp. Tangara mexicana).

SUBSPECIES

Vieillot's Barbet (buchanani)
SCI Name: Lybius vieilloti buchanani
buchanani
● Buchanan I., Northern Territory, Australia (syn. Egretta sacra, syn. Rhipidura phasiana).
● Dr Francis Buchanan later known as Francis Hamilton, Francis Hamilton Buchanan or Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829) Scottish surgeon in the East India Company 1794-1815, geographer, zoologist, botanist, explorer, collector in Nepal and India (Emberiza, Prinia).
● Capt. Angus Buchanan (1886-1954) Scottish explorer, naturalist, collector in the Sahara 1919-1922 (subsp. Argya fulva, Crithagra, subsp. Gymnoris dentata, subsp. Lybius vieilloti, syn. Myrmecocichla aethiops, subsp. Ptyonoprogne obsoleta).
● Buchanan Inlet, Melville I., Northern Territory, Australia (syn. Pachycephala lanioides fretorum).

Vieillot's Barbet (rubescens)
SCI Name: Lybius vieilloti rubescens
rubescens
L. rubescens, rubescentis  reddish, blushed  < rubescere  to become reddish  < ruber  ruddy, red.
● ex “Lark from Pensilvania” of Edwards 1760, and “Red Lark” of Pennant 1768 (Anthus).
● ex "Kokuh" of Krusenstern 1814 (Pampusana).

Vieillot's Barbet (vieilloti)
SCI Name: Lybius vieilloti vieilloti
vieilloti / vieillotii
Louis Pierre Vieillot (1748-1830) French naturalist, collector (Coccyzus (ex Saurothera vetula Vieillot, 1819), syn. Colibri serrirostris, syn. Dendroica erithachorides, syn. Leuconotopicus borealis, syn. Lophura rufa, Lybius (ex “Barbu Rubicon” of Levaillant 1807), subsp. Mellisuga minima, syn. Molothrus oryzivorus, syn. Pachyramphus viridis, syn. Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea, syn. Pyrrhula pyrrhula europoea (ex Pyrrhula europoea Vieillot, 1816), Sphecotheres, syn. Strepera versicolor, syn. Tachuris rubrigastra, subsp. Tangara mexicana).