Yellow-necked Greenbul

SCI Name:  Chlorocichla falkensteini
Protonym:  Criniger Falkensteini J.Orn. 22 p.458
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Chlorocichla
Taxonomy Code:  yengre1
Type Locality:  Chinchoxo, Loango Coast.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHLOROCICHLA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Greenbul C. flaviventris) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  yellow; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush; "a⁹. Bill rather stout and conical, measuring at gape more than the hind toe itself without claw; bill shorter than head. . . . .18. CHLOROCICHLA   ...   18. CHLOROCICHLA.  ...   1. Chlorocichla flaviventris.   ...   General colour above olive-brown  ...  cheeks and under surface of body sulphur-yellow   ...   under tail-coverts yellow like the abdomen   ...   2. Chlorocichla occidentalis.   ...   3. Chlorocichla gracilirostris.   ...   4. Chlorocichla gracilis." (Sharpe 1882); "Chlorocichla Sharpe, 1881, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 6, p. 3, 112. Type, by subsequent designation, Reichenow, Vög. Afr., 3, p. 388, Trichophorus flaviventris Smith." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 260).

falkensteini
Dr Julius August Ferdinand Falkenstein (1842-1917) German surgeon, collector in tropical Africa 1873-1876 (Chlorocichla, subsp.Cinnyris venustus, subsp. Oenanthe familiaris).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-necked Greenbul (viridescentior)
SCI Name: Chlorocichla falkensteini viridescentior
viridescentior
Mod. L. viridescentior, viridescentioris  more greenish  < comp. L. viridescens, viridescentis  greenish  < viridescere  to become green  < viridis  green  < virere  to be green.

Yellow-necked Greenbul (falkensteini)
SCI Name: Chlorocichla falkensteini falkensteini
falkensteini
Dr Julius August Ferdinand Falkenstein (1842-1917) German surgeon, collector in tropical Africa 1873-1876 (Chlorocichla, subsp.Cinnyris venustus, subsp. Oenanthe familiaris).