Chlorocichla Simplex Bird

Chlorocichla Simplex Bird

Chlorocichla Simplex Bird

English Name:  Simple Greenbul
Latin Name:  Chlorocichla simplex
Protonym:  Trichophorus simplex J.Orn. 3 p.356
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Chlorocichla
Taxonomy Code:  simgre1
Type Locality:  Rio Boutry, Gold Coast.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHLOROCICHLA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Greenbul C. flaviventris) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  yellow; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush; "a9. Bill rather stout and conical, measuring at gape more than the hind toe itself without claw; bill shorter than head. . . . .18. CHLOROCICHLA   ...   18. CHLOROCICHLA.  ...   1. Chlorocichla flaviventris.   ...   General colour above olive-brown  ...  cheeks and under surface of body sulphur-yellow   ...   under tail-coverts yellow like the abdomen   ...   2. Chlorocichla occidentalis.   ...   3. Chlorocichla gracilirostris.   ...   4. Chlorocichla gracilis." (Sharpe 1882); "Chlorocichla Sharpe, 1881, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 6, p. 3, 112. Type, by subsequent designation, Reichenow, Vög. Afr., 3, p. 388, Trichophorus flaviventris Smith." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 260).

simplex
L. simplex, simplicis  simple, plain.
● ex “Simple Tern” of Latham 1785 (Phaetusa ☼).