Yellow-browed Bulbul

SCI Name:  Iole indica
Protonym:  T[richophorus]. Indicus MadrasJ.Lit.Sci. 10 p.249
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Iole
Taxonomy Code:  yebbul3
Type Locality:  West Coast of the Peninsula of India; type locality here restricted to the Nilgiri District, Madras State.
Author:  Jerdon
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

IOLE
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Buff-vented Bulbul I. charlottae) Gr. myth. Iole, daughter of King Eurytus of Oechalia and promised in marriage to Hercules. "The following very distinct form among the Flycatchers is also believed to be from the same quarter [Singapore].  Iole, Nobis, n. g.  Allied to Muscipeta, and especially to my M. plumosa (J. A. S. XI, 791), but the beak much less widened, being nearly similar to that of Trichastoma ferruginosum ...  Feet as in Muscipeta, but rather stouter ...  Plumage soft, and excessively dense and copious over the rump; the crown (at least in the species described,) subcrested, with pointed feathers much as in Hypsipetes.  I. olivacea, Nobis." (Blyth 1844); "Iole Blyth, 1844, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 13, p. 386. Type, by monotypy, Iole olivacea Blyth." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 282); "74. Iole charlottae  ...  Species previously listed as I. olivacea, but specific epithet (preoccupied when species included in Hypsipetes) replaced before 1961 and thus permanently invalid; replacement name is crypta, over which charlottae has priority as name of species." (del Hoyo & Collar 2016, 468).
Var. Jole.

indica
L. Indicus  Indian  < India  India.
● "92. COLUMBA.  ...  indica.  18. C. corpore purpureo, humeris viridibus, superciliis albis.  Columba alis viridibus. Edw. av. 14. t. 14.  Habitat in India orientali.  Pileus cærulescens. Remiges primores nigræ. Rectrices nigræ, sed laterales cinereæ. Flexura alarum nigra albo punctata." (Linnaeus 1758) (Chalcophaps).
● East Indies; ex “Bergeronnette grise des Indes” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Indian Wagtail” of Latham 1783 (Dendronanthus).
● Erroneous TL. Amboina (= Sangihe); ex “Indian Lori” of Latham 1781 (syn. Eos histrio).
● Erroneous TL. India (= Ethiopia); ex “Blue Promerops” of Latham 1787 (?syn. Phoeniculus somaliensis).
● East Indies; ex “Merula olivacea indica” of Brisson 1760, “Merle olive des grands Indes” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 564, fig. 1, and “Indian Thrush” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-browed Bulbul (icterica)
SCI Name: Iole indica icterica
icterica / ictericus
Gr. ικτερικος ikterikos  jaundiced, jaundice-yellow  < ικτερος ikteros  jaundice-yellow.

Yellow-browed Bulbul (indica)
SCI Name: Iole indica indica
indica
L. Indicus  Indian  < India  India.
● "92. COLUMBA.  ...  indica.  18. C. corpore purpureo, humeris viridibus, superciliis albis.  Columba alis viridibus. Edw. av. 14. t. 14.  Habitat in India orientali.  Pileus cærulescens. Remiges primores nigræ. Rectrices nigræ, sed laterales cinereæ. Flexura alarum nigra albo punctata." (Linnaeus 1758) (Chalcophaps).
● East Indies; ex “Bergeronnette grise des Indes” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Indian Wagtail” of Latham 1783 (Dendronanthus).
● Erroneous TL. Amboina (= Sangihe); ex “Indian Lori” of Latham 1781 (syn. Eos histrio).
● Erroneous TL. India (= Ethiopia); ex “Blue Promerops” of Latham 1787 (?syn. Phoeniculus somaliensis).
● East Indies; ex “Merula olivacea indica” of Brisson 1760, “Merle olive des grands Indes” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 564, fig. 1, and “Indian Thrush” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

Yellow-browed Bulbul (guglielmi)
SCI Name: Iole indica guglielmi
guglielmi
Maj.-Gen. William Joseph Donovan (1883-1959) US Army, intelligence officer, lawyer, OSS Co-ordinator 1941-1945 (subsp. Acritillas indica).