Dryoscopus Pringlii Bird

Pringle\'s Puffback / Dryoscopus pringlii

Dryoscopus Pringlii Bird

English Name:  Pringle's Puffback
Latin Name:  Dryoscopus pringlii
Protonym:  Dryoscopus pringlii Bull.Br.Orn.Club 3 p.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Dryoscopus
Taxonomy Code:  pripuf1
Type Locality:  Mauungu Wilderness and between Tsavo and Kufumika, Eastern Africa.
Author:  Jackson, FJ
Publish Year:  1893
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DRYOSCOPUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Black-backed Puffback D. cubla) Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; σκοπος skopos  watcher, look-out  < σκοπεω skopeō  to inspect; "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae.   ...   Dryoscopus: Lanius cubla Vaill. Afr. pl. 72 1, 2.  [u.] s. w." (Boie 1826); "Dryoscopus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Lanius cubla Shaw." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 316).
Var. Drioscopus.
Synon. Chaunonotus.

pringlii
Col. Sir John Wallace Pringle (1863-1938) Chief Inspector of Railways, Uganda 1891-1892 (Dryoscopus).