Yellow-throated Bulbul / Pycnonotus xantholaemus

Yellow-throated Bulbul / Pycnonotus xantholaemus

Yellow-throated Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus xantholaemus
Protonym:  Brachypus xantholaemus MadrasJ.Lit.Sci. 13 p.122
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  yetbul1
Type Locality:  Eastern Ghats, India.
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Publish Year:  1845
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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.

xantholaema / xantholaemus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow, golden-yellow; λαιμος laimos  throat.