Mountain Bulbul
| Mountain Bulbul | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Ixos |
| Species: | I. mcclellandii |
| Binomial name | |
| Ixos mcclellandii Horsfield, 1840 | |
| Synonyms | |
Hypsipetes mcclellandii (Horsfield, 1840)
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The Mountain Bulbul(Ixos mcclellandii) is a songbird species in the bulbulfamily(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).It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by Thomas Horsfield in 1840.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.
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