Brown-breasted Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus xanthorrhous
Protonym:  Pycnonotus xanthorrhous Proc.Asiat.Soc.Bengal p.265
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  brbbul1
Type Locality:  Manyun, near Lienshan, western Yunnan.
Author:  Anderson
Publish Year:  1869
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

xanthoroa / xanthorrhoa / xanthorrhous
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ορρος orrhos  rump.

SUBSPECIES

Brown-breasted Bulbul (xanthorrhous)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus xanthorrhous xanthorrhous
xanthoroa / xanthorrhoa / xanthorrhous
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ορρος orrhos  rump.

Brown-breasted Bulbul (andersoni)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus xanthorrhous andersoni
andersoni / andersonii
● William Anderson (1750-1778) Scottish surgeon-naturalist on Capt. Cook’s second (1771) and third (1776) voyages (syn. Acrocephalus aequinoctialis, syn. Larus novaehollandiae, ‡syn. Megapodius molistructor).
● Prof. Dr John Anderson (1833-1900) British zoologist, collector, Superintendent of the Calcutta Mus. 1865-1887 (syn. Aethopyga siparaja labecula, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Pycnonotus xanthorrhous).
● "The new race is named in honor of the late Mr William Anderson, former Comptroller of Silliman University [Negros, Philippines], who aided field work in former years" (Rand & Rabor 1967) (subsp. Brachypteryx poliogyna).
● Malcolm Playfair Anderson (1879-1917) US zoologist, collector in the Far East 1904-1910 and Peru 1912 (syn. Patagioenas cayennensis).
● Andrew Anderson (d. 1878) British civil servant, judge in India, naturalist, collector (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Phoenicopterus roseus).
● Mt. Anderson, West Kimberley, Western Australia (syn. Ptilotula plumula planasi).