Microscelis

Genus of birds

Microscelis is a former genus of bulbuls described by George Robert Gray in 1840.

The following species were classified within the genus Microscelis but are now assigned to Iole, Hemixos or Hypsipetes:

  • Olive bulbul (as Microscelis viridescens)[1]
  • Buff-vented bulbul (as Microscelis charlottae)[2]
  • Ashy bulbul (as Microscelis flavala)[3][4]
  • Brown-eared bulbul (as Microscelis amaurotis)[5]
  • Black bulbul (as Microscelis leucocephalus)[6][7]
  • Black bulbul (psaroides) (as Microscelis psaroides)[8][9]

References

  1. ^ Admin, Avis (11 September 2014). "Microscelis viridescens". AVIS-IBIS. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Iole charlottae – Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. ^ Biological Society of Washington; Smithsonian Institution (1882). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Smithsonian Libraries. [Washington : Biological Society of Washington].
  4. ^ "Hemixos flavala remotus – Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Hypsipetes amaurotis – Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  6. ^ Mayr, Ernst (1942). Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674862500.
  7. ^ "Hypsipetes leucocephalus ambiens - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  8. ^ Ali, Salim (1949). "The Satpura Trend as an Ornithogeographical Highway" (PDF). PINSA. 15 (8): 386.
  9. ^ Baker, Edward Charles Stuart; Oates, Eugene William; Blanford, William Thomas (1922). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. American Museum of Natural History Library. London, Taylor & Francis.
Taxon identifiers
Microscelis


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