White-headed Bulbul

SCI Name:  Hypsipetes thompsoni
Protonym:  Cerasophila Thompsoni Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(7), 5 p.358
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Hypsipetes
Taxonomy Code:  whhbul1
Type Locality:  Loi San Pa = Taung Palaung [lat. 21° 46'' N., long. 96° 55'' E.], Southern Shan States.
Author:  Bingham
Publish Year:  1900
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYPSIPETES
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Black Bulbul H. leucocephalus psaroides) Gr. ὑψιπετης hupsipetēs  high-flying, soaring  < πετομαι petomai  to fly; "Another interesting modification of form was exhibited among the Shrikes, in which the forked tail, acuminated wing, and short and feeble legs of the birds allied to Dicrurus appeared united to the head and bill of some of the Stares, particularly the genus Pastor.  Mr. Vigors characterized the form under the generic name of HYPSIPETES.   Rostrum subelongatum, debile, parum curvatum, apice leviter emarginatum; naribus basalibus, lateralibus, longitudinalibus, membrana partim clausis; rictus setis paucis, parum rigidis.   Alæ subelongatæ, subacuminatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda longiori septimæ æquali, tertia et sexta æqualibus, quarta et quinta æqualibus longissimis.  Pedes brevissimi, debiliores; acrotarsiis scutellatis.  Cauda subelongata, forficata, rectricibus extrorsum spectantibus.   HYPSIPETES PSAROÏDES." (Vigors 1831); "Hypsipetes psaroides  ...  This bird is social, fearless, very noisy, and chiefly found near the tops of high trees." (Oates 1889); "Hypsipetes Vigors, 1831, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1 (1830-1831), p. 43. Type, by monotypy, Hypsipetes psaroides Vigors. Not preoccupied by Ypsipetes Stephens, 1829." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 282).   
Var. Hypsepetes, Hysioetes.   
Synon. Anepsia, Galgulus, Haringtonia, Ixocincla, Microscelis, Orpheus.

thompsoni
● Henry Nilus Thompson (1867-1938) British forestry officer in Burma and Nigeria (Cerasophila, subsp. Neosuthora davidiana).
● Dr Louis Clifford Thompson (1877-1955) English collector in South Africa (subsp. Dendroperdix sephaena).
● Prof. Max Clyde Thompson (b. 1936) US biologist, ornithologist, collector (subsp. Erythropitta erythrogaster, Robsonius).
● Edward Herbert Thompson (1857-1935) US archaeologist, diplomat, Consul to Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico (subsp. Megascops guatemalae).
● Hubert Charles Thompson (1869-1953) Australian oologist, photographer (syn. Pterodroma inexpectata).