Sooty-headed Bulbul

Here the details of the Sooty-headed Bulbul named bird below:

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus aurigaster
Protonym:  Turdus aurigaster Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 20 p.258
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  sohbul1
Type Locality:  Caffraria, ex Levaillant, error = Java.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

aurigaster
L. aurum  gold; gaster, gasteris  belly.
● ex “Yellow-vented Flycatcher” of Brown 1776, “Red-vented Flycatcher , var. A” of Latham 1783, and “Cudor” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 107, fig. 2 (Pycnonotus).

SUBSPECIES

Sooty-headed Bulbul (chrysorrhoides)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster chrysorrhoides
chrysorrhoides
Specific name Turdus chrysorhoeus Temminck, 1822 (= syn. Pycnonotus aurigaster); Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "Genus HÆMATORNIS, Swainson.   1º H. chrysorrhoïdes.  ...  Habit. Macao.   Maxime affinis Turdo chrysorrheo, hæc species differt ab illo ano rubro, non aurantio-flavo, cauda longiore, ejusque maculis terminalibus albis majoribus et magis quadratis." (de La Fresnaye 1845) (subsp. Pycnonotus aurigaster).

Sooty-headed Bulbul (resurrectus)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster resurrectus
resurrectus
Late L. resurrectus risen again, resurrected < L. resurgere to rise up again.

Sooty-headed Bulbul (dolichurus)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster dolichurus
dolichurus
Gr. δολιχος dolikhos  long; -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

Sooty-headed Bulbul (latouchei)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster latouchei
latouchei
John David Digues La Touche (1861-1935) Irish ornithologist, in Imperial Maritime Customs Service, China 1882-1921 (syn. Cygnus cygnus, subsp. Garrulax lanceolatus, syn. Monticola solitarius philippensis, subsp. Phylloscopus valentini, subsp. Pycnonotus aurigaster, subsp. Tephrodornis virgatus).

Sooty-headed Bulbul (klossi)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster klossi
klossi / klossii
Cecil Boden Kloss (1877-1949) English zoologist, Director of Raffles Mus., Singapore 1921-1936 (subsp. Accipiter badius, subsp. Bubo coromandus, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, subsp. Cissa chinensis, subsp. Cyornis hainanus, subsp. Harpactes erythrocephalus, syn. Myophonus caeruleus eugenei, subsp. Pachycephala soror, subsp. Phylloscopus ogilviegranti, subsp. Pomatorhinus schisticeps, subsp. Prinia superciliaris, Pseudominla, subsp. Pycnonotus aurigaster, subsp. Rallicula rubra, Schoeniparus, Spilornis, subsp. Sylviparus modestus).

Sooty-headed Bulbul (schauenseei)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster schauenseei
schauenseei
Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901-1984) Swiss/US ornithologist (subsp. Garrulax monileger, subsp. Pteruthius aeralatus, subsp. Pycnonotus aurigaster).

Sooty-headed Bulbul (thais)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster thais
thais
Thai, a people and their language of Thailand.

Sooty-headed Bulbul (germani)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster germani
germani
Louis Rodolphe Germain (1827-1912) French Army, veterinary surgeon in Indochina 1862-1867, and New Caledonia 1875-1878, collector (subsp. Aerodramus fuciphagus, subsp. Pycnonotus aurigaster).

Sooty-headed Bulbul (aurigaster)
SCI Name: Pycnonotus aurigaster aurigaster
aurigaster
L. aurum  gold; gaster, gasteris  belly.
● ex “Yellow-vented Flycatcher” of Brown 1776, “Red-vented Flycatcher , var. A” of Latham 1783, and “Cudor” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 107, fig. 2 (Pycnonotus).