White-browed Bulbul / Pycnonotus luteolus
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White-browed Bulbul
SCI Name:
Protonym: Haematornis luteolus Rev.Zool. 3(1840) p.354
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code: whbbul2
Type Locality: India ; type locality restricted to Bombay, by Stuart Baker, 1921, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 27, no. 3, p. 471.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1841
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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. Pychnonotus, Picnonotus, 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.
luteolus
L. luteolus yellowish < dim. luteus saffron yellow < lutum saffron.
● "94. STURNUS. ... Luteolus. 2. S. luteus, capite fusco, pectore maculato, alis fusco-luteis. Sturnus luteus benghalensis. Edw. av. 186. t. 186. Pica maderaspatana sturni ad instar maculata. Raj. av. 195. n.7. t. 1. f. 7. Habitat in India." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Oriolus xanthornus).
SUBSPECIES
White-browed Bulbul (luteolus)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus luteolus luteolus
luteolus
L. luteolus yellowish < dim. luteus saffron yellow < lutum saffron.
● "94. STURNUS. ... Luteolus. 2. S. luteus, capite fusco, pectore maculato, alis fusco-luteis. Sturnus luteus benghalensis. Edw. av. 186. t. 186. Pica maderaspatana sturni ad instar maculata. Raj. av. 195. n.7. t. 1. f. 7. Habitat in India." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Oriolus xanthornus).
White-browed Bulbul (insulae)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus luteolus insulae
insulae
L. insula, insulae island, isle.
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)
