Southern Shrikebill

Here the details of the Southern Shrikebill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides
Protonym:  Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.242 pl.19
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Clytorhynchus
Taxonomy Code:  soushr2
Type Locality:  New Caledonia.
Author:  Elliot
Publish Year:  1870
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CLYTORHYNCHUS
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Southern Shrikebill C. pachycephaloides) Gr. κλυτος klutos  splendid  < κλεω kleō  to celebrate; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "CLYTORHYNCHUS PACHYCEPHALOÏDES, sp. et gen. nov.  (Plate XIX.)  Clytorhynchus genus novum Pachycephalinarum; rostrum compressum, subdescendens, ad apicem incurvum; gonys recurvus, fortiter ascendens; remiges secundus, tertius et quartus fere æquales et longissimi.   ...   This curious species, which represents an entirely new genus of the family Pachycephalidæ, holds the same relative position to this family as the Vanga xenopirostris of La Fresnaye (Xenopirostris la fresnayus, Bon.) does to that of the Laniidæ. It is a native of New Caledonia" (Elliot 1870); "Clytorhynchus Elliot, 1870, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 242. Type, by monotypy, Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides Elliot." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 496).
Var. Clytorrhynchus.
Synon. Pinarolestes.

pachycephaloides
Genus Pachycephala Vigors, 1825, whistler; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling (see Clytorhynchus and myiolestoides) (Clytorhynchus).

SUBSPECIES

Southern Shrikebill (pachycephaloides)
SCI Name: Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides pachycephaloides
pachycephaloides
Genus Pachycephala Vigors, 1825, whistler; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling (see Clytorhynchus and myiolestoides) (Clytorhynchus).

Southern Shrikebill (grisescens)
SCI Name: Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides grisescens
grisescens
Mod. L. griscescens, griscescentis  greyish, somewhat grey  < Med. L. griseum  grey.