| Mountain bulbul | |
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| At Sattal, Uttarakhand, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Ixos |
| Species: | I. mcclellandii
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| Binomial name | |
| Ixos mcclellandii (Horsfield, 1840)
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The mountain bulbul (Ixos mcclellandii) is a songbird species in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is often placed in Hypsipetes, but seems to be closer to the type species of the genus Ixos, the Sunda bulbul.[1][2] It is found in Southeast Asia and is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.[1] It is named after British East India Company Surgeon John McClelland.
The mountain bulbul was originally described in the genus Hypsipetes in 1840 by Thomas Horsfield.[3] Alternate names for the mountain bulbul include the green-winged bulbul, McClelland's bulbul, McClelland's rufous-bellied bulbul, mountain streaked bulbul, and rufous-bellied bulbul. The common name, 'mountain bulbul', is also used as an alternate name for the Cameroon greenbul.
Nine subspecies are currently recognized:[4]
It is found from the Indian subcontinent and southern China through Indochina to the Malay Peninsula. Its natural habitat is broadleaved evergreen forests between 800m and 2590m ASL.[5]
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