Seychelles Bulbul

Here the details of the Seychelles Bulbul named bird below:

SCI Name:  Hypsipetes crassirostris
Protonym:  Hypsipetes crassirostris Ibis p.344,note
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Hypsipetes
Taxonomy Code:  seybul1
Type Locality:  Mahe, Seychelle Islands.
Author:  Newton, E
Publish Year:  1867
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.

crassirostra / crassirostre / crassirostris
L. crassus  thick, heavy; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Coucou à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 214 (syn. Eudynamys scolopaceus).
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (syn. Galerida magnirostris).
● ex “Thick-billed Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Oryzoborus).
● ex “Thick-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡syn. Turnagra capensis).