Pringle’s Puffback / Dryoscopus pringlii

Pringle\'s Puffback / Dryoscopus pringlii

Pringle's Puffback

SCI Name:  Dryoscopus pringlii
Protonym:  Dryoscopus pringlii Bull.Br.Orn.Club 3 p.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Malaconotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  pripuf1
Type Locality:  Mauungu Wilderness and between Tsavo and Kufumika, Eastern Africa.
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Publish Year:  1893
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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.

pringlii
Col. Sir John Wallace Pringle (1863-1938) Chief Inspector of Railways, Uganda 1891-1892 (Dryoscopus).