The joyful greenbul (''Chlorocichla laetissima'') or joyful bulbul, is a species of

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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. It is found in east-central Africa. Its natural

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s are boreal

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s and subtropical or tropical moist

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Taxonomy and systematics

The joyful greenbul was originally described in the genus ''

Andropadus The sombre greenbul (''Andropadus importunus'') is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is a resident breeder in coastal bush, evergreen forest and dry shrub land in eastern and southern Africa. It is the only member of the genus ...

'' and later re-classified within ''Chlorocichla''.

Subspecies

Two

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of the joyful greenbul are recognized: * ''C. l. laetissima'' - ( Sharpe, 1899): Found from southern Sudan to south-western Kenya and north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo * ''C. l. schoutedeni'' -

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, 1954: Found in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia

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