Ayeyarwady Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus blanfordi
Protonym:  Pycnonotus blanfordi Ibis p.20,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  ayebul1
Type Locality:  Thayetmyo [lat. 19° 19'' N., long 95° 11'' E.], Upper Burma.
Author:  Jerdon
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  

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.

blanfordi / blanfordii
Dr William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905) English geologist, zoologist, collector in Ethiopia, Persia and India (syn. Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Calandrella, syn. Carduelis carduelis brevirostris, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, syn. Cisticola marginatus, syn. Leiopicus mahrattensis, subsp. Parus major, subsp. Prinia inornata, syn. Prunella modularis obscura, subsp. Psalidoprocne pristoptera, Pycnonotus, Pyrgilauda, syn. Strix aluco nivicola, subsp. Sylvia leucomelaena, syn. Tchagra senegalus, subsp. Turnix tanki).