Bare-faced Bulbul / Nok hualon

Bare-faced Bulbul / Nok hualon

Bare-faced Bulbul

SCI Name:  Nok hualon
Protonym:   Forktail 25 12-Jan
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bafbul1
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Publish Year:  2009
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DEFINITIONS

NOK
(Pycnonotidae; † Bare-faced Bulbul N. hualon) "Nok means bird in Lao and is used to highlight the range-restricted distribution of the species.  Nouns in the Lao language lack gender.  Nok is proposed here as a masculine noun" (Peter Kovalik in litt.); "Nok Fuchs, Pasquet, Stuart, Woxvold, Duckworth and Bowie, 2018, Ibis, 160 (3), p. 659+.  Type, by monotypy and original designation, Pycnonotus hualon Woxvold, Duckworth and Timmins, 2009." (JAJ 2021).

hualon
Lao hualon  shaven-headed, bald-headed.