Pycnonotus Bimaculatus Bird

Pycnonotus Bimaculatus Bird

Pycnonotus Bimaculatus Bird

English Name:  Orange-spotted Bulbul
Latin Name:  Pycnonotus bimaculatus
Protonym:  Turdus bimaculatus Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.147
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  orsbul3
Type Locality:  Java; type specimen ''an East Javan bird,'' fide Robinson and Kloss, 1920, Journ. Straits Br. R. Asiat. Soc. (1919), no. 81, p. 103.
Author:  Horsfield
Publish Year:  1821
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

bimaculata / bimaculatus
Mod. L. bimaculatus  two-spotted, double-spotted  < L. bi-  double  < bis  twice; maculatus  spotted  < maculare  to make spotted  < macula  spot.

SUBSPECIES

Orange-spotted Bulbul (bimaculatus)
Latin Name: Pycnonotus bimaculatus bimaculatus
bimaculata / bimaculatus
Mod. L. bimaculatus  two-spotted, double-spotted  < L. bi-  double  < bis  twice; maculatus  spotted  < maculare  to make spotted  < macula  spot.

Orange-spotted Bulbul (tenggerensis)
Latin Name: Pycnonotus bimaculatus tenggerensis
tenggerensis
Tenger or Tengger Mts., Java, Indonesia.