The mountain bulbul (''Ixos mcclellandii'') 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 ...
species
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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
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, Pycnonotidae. It is often placed in ''
Hypsipetes
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''Hypsipetes'' is a genus of bulbuls, songbirds in the family Pycnonotidae. Most of its species occur in tropical forests around the Indian Ocean. But while the genus is quite diverse in the Madagascar region at the western end of its r ...
'', but seems to be closer to the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
of the
genus
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Ixos
''Ixos'' is a genus of passerine birds in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
Taxonomy and systematics
The genus ''Ixos'' was introduced in 1825 by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck to accommodate the Javan bulbul. The genus name is th ...
'', the
Sunda bulbul Sunda bulbul has been split into two species:
* Javan bulbul, ''Ixos virescens''
* Sumatran bulbul, ''Ixos sumatranus''
Birds by common name
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