Olive-winged Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus plumosus
Protonym:  P[ycnonotus]. plumosus J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 14 p.567
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  olwbul1
Type Locality:  Singapore.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1845
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.

plumosa / plumosus
L. plumosus feathered, downy < pluma small feather.

SUBSPECIES

Olive-winged Bulbul (plumosus)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus plumosus plumosus
plumosa / plumosus
L. plumosus feathered, downy < pluma small feather.

Olive-winged Bulbul (porphyreus)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus plumosus porphyreus
porphyreus
Gr. πορφυρεος porphureos purple.

Olive-winged Bulbul (billitonis)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus plumosus billitonis
billitonis
Billiton I., between Sumatra and Borneo, Dutch East Indies / Belitung,  Indonesia.

Olive-winged Bulbul (hutzi)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus plumosus hutzi
hutzi
Marie-Izabel Hutz Freifrau von Jenisch Baronin von Plessen (1906-1980) wife of German ornithologist Victor Baron von Plessen (subsp. Pitta elegans, subsp. Pycnonotus plumosus).

Olive-winged Bulbul (chiroplethis)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus plumosus chiroplethis
chiroplethis
Gr. χειροπληθης kheiroplēthēs  filling the hand, as large as can be held in the hand  < χειρ kheir, χειρος kheiros  hand; πληθω plēthō  to be full.

Olive-winged Bulbul (hachisukae)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus plumosus hachisukae
hachisuka / hachisukae / hachisukai
Masauji Marquis Hachisuka (1903-1953) Japanese ornithologist (subsp. Chloroceryle americana (ex Chloroceryle americana leucosticta Van Rossem & Hachisuka, 1938), syn. Cinnyris asiaticus intermedius, syn. Cinnyris jugularis frenatus, subsp. Lanius validirostris, syn. Luscinia obscura, subsp. Pycnonotus plumosus).

Olive-winged Bulbul (sibergi)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus plumosus sibergi
sibergi
Johannes Alting Siberg (1800-1857) Dutch magistrate, administrator in the Dutch East Indies (syn. Pycnonotus plumosus).