Yellow-eared Bulbul

Here the details of the Yellow-eared Bulbul named bird below:

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus penicillatus
Protonym:  Pycnonotus penicillatus J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 20 p.178
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  yeebul1
Type Locality:  Ceylon.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1851
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. Pychnonotus, Picnonotus, 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.

penicillata / penicillatus
Mod. L. penicillatus  with brush-like tufts  < L. penicillus  brush  < dim. peniculus  brush  < penis  tail.
● ex “Yellow-eared Bulbul” of Jerdon 1844 (Pycnonotus).