Hypsipetes Borbonicus Bird

English Name:  Reunion Bulbul
Latin Name:  Hypsipetes borbonicus
Protonym:  [Turdus] Borbonicus IndischeZool. p.41
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Hypsipetes
Taxonomy Code:  reubul1
Type Locality:  Isle of Bourbon = La Reunion, ex Brisson. Based on the Merula Borbonica of Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 2, p. 293, pi. 24, fig. 3.
Author:  Forster, JR
Publish Year:  1781
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

HYPSIPETES
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Black Bulbul H. leucocephalus psaroides) Gr. ὑψιπετης hupsipetēs  high-flying, soaring  < πετομαι petomai  to fly; "Another interesting modification of form was exhibited among the Shrikes, in which the forked tail, acuminated wing, and short and feeble legs of the birds allied to Dicrurus appeared united to the head and bill of some of the Stares, particularly the genus Pastor.  Mr. Vigors characterized the form under the generic name of HYPSIPETES.   Rostrum subelongatum, debile, parum curvatum, apice leviter emarginatum; naribus basalibus, lateralibus, longitudinalibus, membrana partim clausis; rictus setis paucis, parum rigidis.   Alæ subelongatæ, subacuminatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda longiori septimæ æquali, tertia et sexta æqualibus, quarta et quinta æqualibus longissimis.  Pedes brevissimi, debiliores; acrotarsiis scutellatis.  Cauda subelongata, forficata, rectricibus extrorsum spectantibus.   HYPSIPETES PSAROÏDES." (Vigors 1831); "Hypsipetes psaroides  ...  This bird is social, fearless, very noisy, and chiefly found near the tops of high trees." (Oates 1889); "Hypsipetes Vigors, 1831, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1 (1830-1831), p. 43. Type, by monotypy, Hypsipetes psaroides Vigors. Not preoccupied by Ypsipetes Stephens, 1829." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 282).   
Var. Hypsepetes, Hysioetes.   
Synon. Anepsia, Galgulus, Haringtonia, Ixocincla, Microscelis, Orpheus.

borbonensis / borbonica / borbonicus
Île Bourbon, named in 1649 for the Bourbons, a European royal house of French origin (= Île de la Réunion = Réunion, named in 1793 to commemorate the fall of the Bourbons and the union of revolutionaries from Marseille and from Paris).
● ex “Merula borbonica” of Brisson 1760 (Hypsipetes).
● ex “Merula borbonica” of Brisson 1760, “Merle de l’isle de Bourbon” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bourbon Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Hypsipetes borbonicus).
● ex “Hirondelle de l’Île de Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 544, fig. 2 (Phedina).
● Erroneous TL Île de Bourbon (= tropical America); ex “Ficedula borbonica” of Brisson 1760, “Petit Simon” of de Buffon 1770-1783, “Figuier de l’île de Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 705, fig. 2, and “Bourbon Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Polioptila plumbea).
● ex “Muscicapa borbonica cristata” of Brisson 1760, “Gobe-mouche huppé de l’île de Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 573, fig. 1, and “Bourbon Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Terpsiphone bourbonnensis).
● ex “Grimpereau” or “Figuier de l’Île de Bourbon” of Brisson 1760, “Soui-manga de l’Île de Bourbon” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Yellow-rumped Creeper” of Latham 1781 (Zosterops).