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Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae)

Spectacled Bulbul (Pycnonotus erythropthalmos) - HBW 10, p. 194

French: Bulbul oeil-de-feu German: Salvadoribülbül Spanish: Bulbul de Anteojos
Other common names: Lesser Brown Bulbul

Taxonomy: I[xos]. erythropthalmos Hume, 1878, Pakchan estuary, Myanmar.
Genus as currently constituted probably polyphyletic; in-depth analysis of morphology, voice, behaviour and genetics required to redefine its limits. This species probably warrants placement with P. brunneus in a separate genus; both appear rather distantly related to the “P. capensis complex” and “P. cafer complex”. Species name often misspelt as erythrophthalmos or erythropthalmus. Earlier names for this taxon (simplex and pusillus) are invalid, as either improperly instated or preoccupied within genus. Form on Borneo has been thought.. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: I[xos]. erythropthalmos Hume, 1878, Pakchan estuary, Myanmar.
Genus as currently constituted probably polyphyletic; in-depth analysis of morphology, voice, behaviour and genetics required to redefine its limits. This species probably warrants placement with P. brunneus in a separate genus; both appear rather distantly related to the “P. capensis complex” and “P. cafer complex”. Species name often misspelt as erythrophthalmos or erythropthalmus. Earlier names for this taxon (simplex and pusillus) are invalid, as either improperly instated or preoccupied within genus. Form on Borneo has been thought subspecifically distinct, and was initially named pusillus, then renamed salvadorii, but indistinguishable in larger series from other populations. Three other described races, cyanochrous, isus and pammicrus (all from W Sumatran islands), also treated as junior synonyms. Monotypic.

Distribution: S Myanmar (Tenasserim), S Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra (including Banyak, Nias, Batu, Lingga Archipelago, Bangka, Belitung) and Borneo.

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