The cinereous bulbul (''Hemixos cinereus'') is a species of 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. It is found in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

Taxonomy and systematics

The cinereous bulbul was originally classified in the genus '' Iole''. It was formerly considered as conspecific with 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. cinereus'' - ( Blyth, 1845): Found on the

Malay Peninsula The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...

and

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

* Green-winged bulbul (''H. c. connectens'') - Sharpe, 1887: Formerly described as a separate species by some authorities. Found in northern

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

References

cinereous bulbul The cinereous bulbul (''Hemixos cinereus'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Taxonomy and systematics The cinereous bulbul was originally classified in the genus ''Iole''. ...

Birds of Southeast Asia

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