BOMBMAN
Red Vented Bulbul
Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae)
Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) - HBW 10, p. 184
French: Bulbul à ventre rouge German: Rußbülbül Spanish: Bulbul Cafre
Taxonomy: [Turdus] cafer Linnaeus, 1766, Cape of Good Hope; error = Pondicherry, south-east India.
Type locality has twice been corrected, first from South Africa, secondly from Sri Lanka; Sri Lankan race therefore no longer the nominotypical one. Genus as currently constituted probably polyphyletic; in-depth analysis of morphology, voice, behaviour and genetics required to redefine its limits. Present species forms a superspecies with P. aurigaster; sometimes treated as conspecific owing to interbreeding in Myanmar; hybrids earlier described incorrectly as separate species (P. nigropileus and P. burmanicus). In NW India, often hybridizes with P. leucogenys; hyb
Red Vented Bulbul
Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae)
Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) - HBW 10, p. 184
French: Bulbul à ventre rouge German: Rußbülbül Spanish: Bulbul Cafre
Taxonomy: [Turdus] cafer Linnaeus, 1766, Cape of Good Hope; error = Pondicherry, south-east India.
Type locality has twice been corrected, first from South Africa, secondly from Sri Lanka; Sri Lankan race therefore no longer the nominotypical one. Genus as currently constituted probably polyphyletic; in-depth analysis of morphology, voice, behaviour and genetics required to redefine its limits. Present species forms a superspecies with P. aurigaster; sometimes treated as conspecific owing to interbreeding in Myanmar; hybrids earlier described incorrectly as separate species (P. nigropileus and P. burmanicus). In NW India, often hybridizes with P. leucogenys; hyb