Pycnonotidae
ヒヨドリ科
hiyo-dori ka

General

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The general ornithological name for the bulbuls is ヒヨドリ hiyo-dori, based on the name of the Chestnut-eared Bulbul Hypsipetes amaurotis.

1. The Chestnut-eared Bulbul is known as the ヒヨドリ hiyo-dori in Japanese, written 鵯 in Chinese characters. Minus the -dori (from tori meaning 'bird'), it is also known as the ヒヨ hiyo, which is written with the same character 鵯. The name presumably derives from the bird's loud call, which in Japanese is rendered as ピーヨピーヨ piiyo-piiyo.

The choice of 鵯 to write ヒヨドリ hiyo-dori appears to be based on an identification of the old Chinese names 鵯鵊 and 鵯頰, both read hikyō, with the Chestnut-eared Bulbul. (The old name 鵯鶋 hikyo, on the other hand, is identified with the a type of crow.)

2. The Chinese Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis is known as the シロガシラ shiro-gashira 'white head', written 白頭 'white head' in Chinese characters. (This must be distinguished from 白頭翁 hakutō-ō 'white headed old-man', which is the Chinese name for the Light-vented Bulbul but is used in Japanese for a variety of starling.)

Species names

SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN		JAPANESE		CHINESE			KOREAN
Hypsipetes
Latin	Eng, Fr, Ger, Ru	Japanese	Other J	Chinese	Chinese (Taiwan)	Other Ch	Korean
Hypsipetes amaurotis Microscelis amaurotis Ixos amaurotis	Brown-eared bulbul Chestnut-eared bulbul Bulbul à oreillons bruns Orpheusbülbül Короткопалый бюльбюль	ヒヨドリ (鵯) hiyo-dori 'bulbul-bird'	ヒヨ (鵯) hiyo 'bulbul' ヒエドリ (鵯) hie-dori 'hie bird' (alternate form)	栗耳短脚鹎 (栗耳短腳鵯) lì-ěr duǎn-jiǎo-bēi 'chestnut-eared short-legged bulbul'	(棕耳鹎) 棕耳鵯 zōng-ěr bēi 'reddishbrown-eared bulbul'	蓝布鲁布鲁 (藍布魯布魯) lán bùlǔ bùlǔ 'blue bulbul' (from English 'bulbul') (early ornithological) (35)	직박구리 jikbakguri 'bulbul'
Pycnonotus
Latin	Eng, Fr, Ger, Ru	Japanese	Other J	Chinese	Chinese (Taiwan)	Other Ch	Korean
Pycnonotus sinensus	Light-vented bulbul Chinese bulbul Bulbul de Chine Chinesenbülbül Китайский бюльбюль	シロガシラ (白頭) shiro-gashira 'white head'		白头鹎 (白頭鵯) bái-tóu bēi 'white-headed bulbul'	(白头翁) 白頭翁 bái-tóu wēng 'white-headed old-man'	白头婆 (白頭婆) bái-tóu pō 'white-headed old-woman' 白头公 (白頭公) bái-tóu gōng 'white-headed old-man' (southern) (35)	줄무늬머리직박구리 julmunui-meori-jikbakguri 'stripe-headed bulbul' or 검은이마직박구리 geomeun-ima-jikbakguri 'black-eyebrowed bulbul'

中国鸟类种和亚种分类名录大全（修订版） 郑作新 著 科学出版社 北京 2000年
A Complete Checklist of Species and Subspecies of the Chinese Birds (Revised Edition) by Cheng Tso-Hsin, Science Press, Beijing 2000

中国鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2005年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of China Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2005

中国鸟类野外手册（中文版）约翰・马敬能、卡伦・菲利普斯，合作者：荷芬奇，翻译：卢和芬 湖南教育出版社 长沙 2000年
A Field Guide to the Birds of China (Chinese translation) by John MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, in collaboration with He Fen-qi, translated by Lu Hefen, Hunan Jiaoyu Chubanshe (Hunan Educational Press) Changsha 2000

世界鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2002年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of the World Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2002

世界鸟类名称（拉丁文、汉文、英文对照）第二版 郑作新等 科学出版社 北京 2002年
Birds of the World (Latin, Chinese and English Names) 2nd ed. by Cheng Tso-Hsin et al, Science Press, Beijing 2002

Chinese Birds (A Tentative List of Chinese Birds) 中國鳥類（中國鳥類目錄試編） N. Gist Gee, Lacy I. Moffett, G. D. Wilder (祁天錫, 慕維德, 萬卓志), Peiping, 1927 (reprinted 1948)