Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Mountain Bulbul

Saturday 27 September 2014

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)

Mountain Bulbul

Ixos mcclellandii

绿翅短脚鹎 (lǜ-chì duǎn-jiǎo-bēi) /
麦克氏短脚鹎 (màikè-shì duǎn-jiǎo-bēi)

Malay : Bebarau-Bukit Biasa

Japanese : ニコバルヒヨドリ (nikobaru hiyo-dori) / ミヤマヒヨドリ (mi-yama hiyo-dori)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 深山鵯

Size : 21–24 cm; 27–41 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Ixos mcclellandii mcclellandii (Horsfield, 1840)
– Nepal, N India (E Himalayas from Uttaranchal E to NE Arunachal, and hills from
S Assam S to Mizoram) and NW Myanmar; reported also from SE Tibet.
Ixos mcclellandii ventralis (Stresemann, 1940)
– W & SW Myanmar (including Arakan); old reports from Bangladesh (Chittagong hills).
Ixos mcclellandii tickelli (Blyth, 1855)
– E Myanmar and N Thailand.
Ixos mcclellandii similis (Rothschild, 1921)
– S China (W & S Yunnan) and NE Myanmar S to N Indochina.
Ixos mcclellandii holtii (Swinhoe, 1861)
– SE China (Guangxi, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian).
Ixos mcclellandii loquax (Deignan, 1940)
– NW & NE Thailand and S Laos.
Ixos mcclellandii griseiventer (Robinson & Kloss, 1919)
– S Vietnam (S Annam).
Ixos mcclellandii canescens (Riley, 1933)
– SE Thailand and SW Cambodia.
Ixos mcclellandii peracensis (Hartert & Butler, 1898)
– S Thailand and N Peninsular Malaysia.