Cream-striped Bulbul / Pycnonotus leucogrammicus

Cream-striped Bulbul / Pycnonotus leucogrammicus

Cream-striped Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus leucogrammicus
Protonym:  Ixos leucogrammicus Tijdschr.Nat.Gesch.Phys. 2(1835) p.352
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  crsbul1
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
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Publish Year:  1836
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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.

leucogrammica / leucogrammicum / leucogrammicus
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; γραμμικος grammikos  lined < γραμμη grammē  line, mark  < γραφω graphō  to write.