White-eared Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus leucotis
Protonym:  Ixos leucotis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt4 no.37 p.6
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  whebul1
Type Locality:  East India; type locality restricted to Karachi, West Pakistan, by Ticehurst, 1922, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 28, p. 383.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1836
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.

leucotis
Gr. λευκος leukos white; -ωτις -ōtis -eared < ους ous, ωτος ōtos ear.
● ex “Fourmilier à oreilles blanches de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 822, and “White-eared Manakin” of Latham 1783 (syn. Conopophaga aurita).

SUBSPECIES

White-eared Bulbul (mesopotamia)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus leucotis mesopotamia
mesopotamia / mesopotamiae / mesopotamicus
● Gr. μεσος mesos  in the middle of; ποταμος potamos  river; TL. Río Yuruán, Bolívar, Venezuela (subsp. Habia rubra).
● L. Mesopotamia, Mesopotamiae  Mesopotamia, an ancient country and civilization of the Near East, located between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris (subsp. Passer moabiticus, subsp. Pycnonotus leucotis).

White-eared Bulbul (dactylus)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus leucotis dactylus
dactylus
Gr. δακτυλος daktulos  finger, toe.

White-eared Bulbul (leucotis)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus leucotis leucotis
leucotis
Gr. λευκος leukos white; -ωτις -ōtis -eared < ους ous, ωτος ōtos ear.
● ex “Fourmilier à oreilles blanches de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 822, and “White-eared Manakin” of Latham 1783 (syn. Conopophaga aurita).