- Mountain Bulbul
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Mountain Bulbul 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Pycnonotidae Genus: Ixos Species: I. mcclellandii Binomial name Ixos mcclellandii
Horsfield, 1840Synonyms Hypsipetes mcclellandii (Horsfield, 1840)
On Fraser Hill (Malaysia)
The Mountain Bulbul (Ixos mcclellandii) is a songbird species in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae). It is often placed in Hypsipetes, but seems to be closer to the type species of the genus Ixos, the Sunda Bulbul or Green-winged Bulbul (I. virescens).[1] It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.[2]
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Taxonomy
The species was originally described by Thomas Horsfield in 1840.[3] Subspecies include:
- I. m. mcclellandii
- I. m. ventralis
- I. m. tickelli
- I. m. similis
- I. m. holtii
- I. m. loquax
- I. m. griseiventer
- I. m. canescens
- I. m. peracensis
Distribution and habitat
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is broadleaved evergreen forest forests, 800-2590m.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Gregory (2000), BLI (2008)
- ^ BLI (2008)
- ^ "Ixos mcclellandii - Avibase". http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=473131CCF960B0C4. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
- ^ Robson, Craig (2002-10-07). Birds of Thailand. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691007007. http://books.google.com/books?id=yiJgHQAACAAJ. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
References
- BirdLife International (BLI) (2008). Hypsipetes mcclellandii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 June 2009.
- Gregory, Steven M. (2000): Nomenclature of the Hypsipetes Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae). Forktail 16: 164-166. PDF fulltext
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