The chestnut bulbul or chestnut-backed bulbul (''Hemixos castanonotus'') is a

songbird A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin ''oscen'', "songbird". The Passeriformes contains 5,00 ...

in the

bulbul The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropic ...

family, Pycnonotidae. The species was first described by

Robert Swinhoe Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Qing-era Taiwan (then known to Westerners as Formosa). He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as ...

in 1870. It is found in southern China and northern Vietnam. Its natural

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is subtropical or tropical moist lowland

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s; it primarily resides in the canopy.

Diet

It is an omnivore.

Taxonomy and systematics

Formerly, some authorities classified the chestnut bulbul in the genus '' Hypsipetes'' and also as a subspecies of the ashy bulbul.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are currently recognized: * ''H. c. canipennis'' - Seebohm, 1890: Found in southern China and north-eastern Vietnam * ''H. c. castanonotus'' - R. Swinhoe, 1870: Found in northern Vietnam and on

Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...

References

chestnut bulbul Birds of South China Birds of Hainan Birds of Hong Kong chestnut bulbul Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe {{Pycnonotidae-stub