Pogoniulus Bilineatus Bird

English Name:  Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Latin Name:  Pogoniulus bilineatus
Protonym:  Megalaema bilineata Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.109
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Lybiidae / Pogoniulus
Taxonomy Code:  yertin1
Type Locality:  'Caffraria inferiore'' ; type from the Umlazi River, Natal.
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

POGONIULUS
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Red-fronted Tinkerbird P. pusillus) Dim. < genus Pogonias Illiger, 1811, barbet; "BARBION (Pogoniulus, Nob.) ayant pour type le Barbion de Levaillant (Bucco parvus Gmel.)" (de La Fresnaye 1843); "Pogoniulus Lafresnaye, Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., 2, 1844 (1842), p. 463. Type, by original designation, Barbion de Levaillant (Bucco parvus Gmel.) [i.e. Bucco parvus auct., not of Gmelin] = Bucco pusillus Dumont.²   ...   ² Bucco nanus Boddaert, 1783, and Bucco parvus Gmelin, 1788, are based chiefly on the "Barbu du Sénégal" of Daubenton, Pl. enlum. no. 746, f. 1.  I am unable to reocognize in Daubenton's figure any of the so-called African "tinker birds"; nor are either of the names based on his figure in current use." (Peters 1948, VI, 44).
Var. Pogoniolus.
Synon. Barbatula, Barbatulides, Lignobucco, Microbucco, Micropogonius, Viridibucco, Xylobucco.

bilineata / bilineatus
Mod. L. bilineatus  double-striped  < L. bi-  two-  < bis  twice; lineatus  lined  < linea  line  < linum  thread  < Gr. λινον linon  flax, thread.

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Yellow-rumped)
Latin Name: Pogoniulus bilineatus [bilineatus Group]
POGONIULUS
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Red-fronted Tinkerbird P. pusillus) Dim. < genus Pogonias Illiger, 1811, barbet; "BARBION (Pogoniulus, Nob.) ayant pour type le Barbion de Levaillant (Bucco parvus Gmel.)" (de La Fresnaye 1843); "Pogoniulus Lafresnaye, Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., 2, 1844 (1842), p. 463. Type, by original designation, Barbion de Levaillant (Bucco parvus Gmel.) [i.e. Bucco parvus auct., not of Gmelin] = Bucco pusillus Dumont.²   ...   ² Bucco nanus Boddaert, 1783, and Bucco parvus Gmelin, 1788, are based chiefly on the "Barbu du Sénégal" of Daubenton, Pl. enlum. no. 746, f. 1.  I am unable to reocognize in Daubenton's figure any of the so-called African "tinker birds"; nor are either of the names based on his figure in current use." (Peters 1948, VI, 44).
Var. Pogoniolus.
Synon. Barbatula, Barbatulides, Lignobucco, Microbucco, Micropogonius, Viridibucco, Xylobucco.

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (White-chested)
Latin Name: Pogoniulus bilineatus makawai
makawa / makawai
Jali Makawa (?1914-1995) Nguru (Mozambique) hunter, taxidermist, collector for C. W. Benson in Northern Rhodesia / Zambia, Abyssinia / Ethiopia and Mozambique (subsp. Chlorophoneus olivaceus, ‡Pogoniulus, subsp. Spizocorys conirostris).