Northern Puffback

SCI Name:  Dryoscopus gambensis
Protonym:  Lanius gambensis Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.48
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Dryoscopus
Taxonomy Code:  norpuf1
Type Locality:  Senegambia.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DRYOSCOPUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Black-backed Puffback D. cubla) Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; σκοπος skopos  watcher, look-out  < σκοπεω skopeō  to inspect; "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae.   ...   Dryoscopus: Lanius cubla Vaill. Afr. pl. 72 1, 2.  [u.] s. w." (Boie 1826); "Dryoscopus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Lanius cubla Shaw." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 316).
Var. Drioscopus.
Synon. Chaunonotus.

gambensis
Gambia.
● ex “Gambo-Goose” or “Spur-wing’d Goose” of Ray 1713 (Plectropterus).

SUBSPECIES

Northern Puffback (gambensis)
SCI Name: Dryoscopus gambensis gambensis
gambensis
Gambia.
● ex “Gambo-Goose” or “Spur-wing’d Goose” of Ray 1713 (Plectropterus).

Northern Puffback (congicus)
SCI Name: Dryoscopus gambensis congicus
congica / congicus / congo / congoensis
Congo or Belgian Congo / DR Congo.

Northern Puffback (malzacii)
SCI Name: Dryoscopus gambensis malzacii
malzacii
Alfonse de Malzac (1800-1860) French ivory hunter, trader in the Sudan (syn. Cisticola natalensis strangei, subsp. Dryoscopus gambensis, syn. Polyboroides typus).

Northern Puffback (erythreae)
SCI Name: Dryoscopus gambensis erythreae
erythreae
Erythraea, a former spelling of Eritrea (subsp. Dryoscopus gambensis, syn. Streptopelia vinacea).