Square-tailed Bulbul
Square-tailed Bulbul
Here the details of the Square-tailed Bulbul named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Hypsipetes Ganeesa Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part II, Meeting of April 24, 1832 p. 86
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Hypsipetes
Taxonomy Code: sqtbul1
Type Locality: dense woods of the Ghats = Mahabaleshwar, Satara North, Bombay, fide Whistler and Kinnear, 1932, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 35, no. 4, p. 753.
Author: Sykes
Publish Year: 1832
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HYPSIPETES
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Black Bulbul H. leucocephalus psaroides) Gr. ὑψιπετης hupsipetēs high-flying, soaring < πετομαι petomai to fly; "Another interesting modification of form was exhibited among the Shrikes, in which the forked tail, acuminated wing, and short and feeble legs of the birds allied to Dicrurus appeared united to the head and bill of some of the Stares, particularly the genus Pastor. Mr. Vigors characterized the form under the generic name of HYPSIPETES. Rostrum subelongatum, debile, parum curvatum, apice leviter emarginatum; naribus basalibus, lateralibus, longitudinalibus, membrana partim clausis; rictus setis paucis, parum rigidis. Alæ subelongatæ, subacuminatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda longiori septimæ æquali, tertia et sexta æqualibus, quarta et quinta æqualibus longissimis. Pedes brevissimi, debiliores; acrotarsiis scutellatis. Cauda subelongata, forficata, rectricibus extrorsum spectantibus. HYPSIPETES PSAROÏDES." (Vigors 1831); "Hypsipetes psaroides ... This bird is social, fearless, very noisy, and chiefly found near the tops of high trees." (Oates 1889); "Hypsipetes Vigors, 1831, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1 (1830-1831), p. 43. Type, by monotypy, Hypsipetes psaroides Vigors. Not preoccupied by Ypsipetes Stephens, 1829." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 282).
Var. Hypsepetes, Hysioetes.
Synon. Anepsia, Galgulus, Haringtonia, Ixocincla, Microscelis, Orpheus.
ganeesa
Hindu myth. Ganesh, the elephant-headed god (Hypsipetes).
SUBSPECIES
Square-tailed Bulbul (Indian)
SCI Name: Hypsipetes ganeesa ganeesa
ganeesa
Hindu myth. Ganesh, the elephant-headed god (Hypsipetes).
Square-tailed Bulbul (Sri Lanka)
SCI Name: Hypsipetes ganeesa humii
humii
Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) English civil servant in India 1850-1894, ornithologist, collector, founder of journal ‘Stray Feathers’ (subsp. Carpodacus puniceus, Chrysophlegma, subsp. Coccothraustes coccothraustes, subsp. Hypsipetes ganeesa, syn. Periparus ater aemodius, syn. Psilopogon mystacophanos, Pycnonotus leucogenys x P. leucotis hybrid, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris (ex Sturnus nitens Hume, 1871), subsp. Suthora nipalensis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).
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)