The chestnut bulbul or chestnut-backed bulbul (''Hemixos castanonotus'') is a songbird 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. 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 Formosa. He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after him. Bio ...

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

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

is subtropical or tropical moist lowland

forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

Taxonomy and systematics

Formerly, some authorities classified the chestnut bulbul in the genus ''

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 also as a subspecies of the

ashy bulbul The ashy bulbul (''Hemixos flavala'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropic ...

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 the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

References

chestnut bulbul The chestnut bulbul or chestnut-backed bulbul (''Hemixos castanonotus'') is a songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. The species was Species description, first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1870. It is found in southern China and northern ...

Birds of South China Birds of Hainan Birds of Hong Kong

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