The buff-vented bulbul (''Iole crypta'') is a species of

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 500 ...

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, tropical As ...

family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in south-eastern Myanmar, south-western Thailand, on the

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and nearby islands. Its natural

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is subtropical or tropical moist lowland

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s. It is threatened by

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Taxonomy and systematics

The former scientific name, ''Iole olivacea'' Blyth, 1844, has now been ruled as permanently invalid by the

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. Some authorities have classified the buff-vented bulbul in the genera ''

Hypsipetes __NOTOC__ ''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 ...

'' and '' Microscelis''. Formerly, Charlotte's bulbul was considered as conspecific with the buff-vented bulbul until split by the

in 2017. Alternate names for the buff-vented bulbul include the crested olive bulbul, dull-brown bulbul and Finsch's olive bulbul.

References

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