The Key to Scientific Names
- TRIGONOCEPS
(Accipitridae; Ϯ White-headed Vulture T. occipitalis) L. trigonum triangle < Gr. τριγονον trigōnon triangle <τρεις treis, τριων triōn three; γωνια gōnia angle; -ceps -headed < caput, capitis head; "Adult - top of head covered with a thick cushion of white down, forming a distinctive triangular silhouette" (Brown & Amadon 1968); "6e Sous-genre: TRIGONOCEPS, Lesson. 25. Trigonoceps occipitalis; Vultur occipitalis, Burchell, Voy.; Vautour chincou, Temm., pl. 13; Rupp., Voy. pl. 22 (adulte); Bruce, Voy.; Proc. 1, 13, 69 et 169; Vultur abyssinicus, Lath. Hab. le Sénégal, l'Abyssinie, le cap de Bonne-Espérance." (Lesson 1842); "Trigonoceps Lesson, Écho du Monde Savant (2), 6, 1842, col. 1038. Type, by monotypy, Vultur occipitalis Burchell." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 260).
Synon. Lophogyps.
