White-browed Bulbul / Pycnonotus luteolus

White-browed Bulbul / Pycnonotus luteolus

White-browed Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus luteolus
Protonym:  Haematornis luteolus Rev.Zool. 3(1840) p.354
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whbbul2
Type Locality:  India ; type locality restricted to Bombay, by Stuart Baker, 1921, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 27, no. 3, p. 471.
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Publish Year:  1841
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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.

luteolus
L. luteolus  yellowish  < dim. luteus  saffron yellow  < lutum  saffron.
● "94. STURNUS.  ...  Luteolus.  2. S. luteus, capite fusco, pectore maculato, alis fusco-luteis.  Sturnus luteus benghalensis. Edw. av. 186. t. 186.  Pica maderaspatana sturni ad instar maculata. Raj. av. 195. n.7. t. 1. f. 7.  Habitat in India." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Oriolus xanthornus).

SUBSPECIES

White-browed Bulbul (luteolus)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus luteolus luteolus
luteolus
L. luteolus  yellowish  < dim. luteus  saffron yellow  < lutum  saffron.
● "94. STURNUS.  ...  Luteolus.  2. S. luteus, capite fusco, pectore maculato, alis fusco-luteis.  Sturnus luteus benghalensis. Edw. av. 186. t. 186.  Pica maderaspatana sturni ad instar maculata. Raj. av. 195. n.7. t. 1. f. 7.  Habitat in India." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Oriolus xanthornus).

White-browed Bulbul (insulae)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus luteolus insulae
insulae
L. insula, insulae island, isle.