Bougainville Hooded Whistler
Bougainville Hooded Whistler
Here the details of the Bougainville Hooded Whistler named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pachycephala implicata richardsi Am.Mus.Novit. no.522 p. 3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pachycephalidae / Pachycephala
Taxonomy Code: bohwhi1
Type Locality: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands.
Author: Mayr
Publish Year: 1932
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PACHYCEPHALA
(Pachycephalidae; Ϯ Golden Whistler P. pectoralis) Gr. παχυς pakhus large, thick; κεφαλη kephalē head; from the appearance of their large rounded heads the Indomalayan and Australasian whistlers were formerly known as 'thickheads'; "The interval betweeen the present groups and those of the Pari, where we entered on the family [Pipridæ], appears to be filled up by a race of birds peculiar to New Holland, and hitherto uncharacterized, of which the Muscicapa pectoralis, Lath. is the type*. These, uniting many external characters, at least, both of the Berry-Eaters and Flycatchers, exhibit also in general appearance a considerable resemblance to the Pari, and will be found, I conjecture, to be the connecting bond between all these groups. ... * Mr. Swainson has lately formed this group into a genus by the name of Pachycephala. Nov. 1824." (Vigors 1825); "Genus. PACHYCEPHALA*. Swains. MSS. ... Caput tumidiusculum. ... In their general appearance some of the species exhibit a resemblance to the birds of the genus Procnias, Ill., while by the puffed-out appearance of the feathers about the head, we trace an approximation to some of the Linnean Pari. ... * παχυς crassus, and κεφαλη caput" (Vigors & Horsfield 1827).
Var. Pachycephalus.
Synon. Alisterornis, Gilbertornis, Hylocharis, Hyloterpe, Lewinornis, Malacolestes, Mattingleya, Musciterpe, Muscitrea, Mutevodia, Pachycilodryas, Psaltricephus, Pucherania, Timixos.
richardsi / richardsii
• Adm. Sir George Henry Richards (1820-1896) Royal Navy, hydrographer, donor, and his son, Lt. later Rear-Adm. George Edward Richards (1852-1927) Royal Navy, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (subsp. Ceyx pusillus, subsp. Dryocopus javensis, syn. Ducula rubricera rufigula, Monarcha, Ptilinopus).
• Guy Richards (1905-1979) US ornithologist, journalist, explorer (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Pachycephala).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)