Black Bulbul

Order - Passeriformes 雀形目
Family - Pycnonotidae 鹎科 (Bulbuls)
Genus - Hypsipetes 短脚鹎属

Black Bulbul

Hypsipetes leucocephalus

黑短脚鹎

    Size : 23.5–26.5 cm

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Hypsipetes leucocephalus psaroides (Vigors, 1831)
  – Himalayas from NE Afghanistan (Kunar Valley) and N Pakistan E to NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, also S Assam hills), S Tibet, NE & SE Bangladesh and NW Myanmar; non-breeding also at lower altitudes.
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus nigrescens (E. C. S. Baker, 1917)
  – NE India (E Assam and Manipur) and W, C & S Myanmar (including Chin Hills and Arakan).
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus sinensis (La Touche, 1922)
  – S China (NW Yunnan); non-breeding Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus stresemanni (Mayr, 1942)
  – S China (N Yunnan); non-breeding Thailand, Laos and N Vietnam (E Tonkin).
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus ambiens (Mayr, 1942)
  – NE Myanmar and S China (Salween watershed, in W Yunnan).
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus concolor (Blyth, 1849)
  – E Myanmar, S China (S Yunnan), Thailand and Indochina.
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus leucothorax (Mayr, 1942)
  – C China (S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei); non-breeding W, N & E Myanmar, N & NE Thailand, N Vietnam (Tonkin).
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus leucocephalus (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)
  – SE China (S Anhui, Zhejiang and Hunan S to Guangxi and Guangdong); non-breeding E Myanmar and N Indochina.
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus nigerrimus (Gould, 1863)
  – Taiwan.
• Hypsipetes leucocephalus perniger (Swinhoe, 1870)
  – S China (Hainan); possibly also N Vietnam (E Tonkin).

Date : 25 December 2017

六十六号塘, 旱龙寨, 百花岭, 高黎贡山国家自然保护区, 隆阳区, 保山市, 云南省, 中国

Hide 16, HanLongZhai, BaiHuaLing, Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve,
Longyang Qu, Baoshan Prefecture-level City, Yunnan Province, China