ashy bulbul

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PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 378 (Observe the Bird and recognize)..ASHY BULBUL [From a Photograph of MR. ANANTHA MURTHY]... ....WATERCOLOUR...A4...2014... The Ashy Bulbul (Hemixos flavala) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Sometimes included in expanded genus Hypsipetes. Forms a superspecies with H. cinereus and H. castanonotus, and all often treated as conspecific, but morphological and vocal distinctness of constituent taxa suggests that they are best viewed as allospecies; full review necessary to determine relationship among forms. Isolated race remotus is notably divergent, and may warrant elevation to species rank. Five subspecies provisionally recognized. lavala Blyth, 1845 - E Himalayas from N India (E from Uttar Pradesh, including S Assam hills) E to SE Tibet, NW Myanmar and S China (W Yunnan), and NE Bangladesh (Sylhet). bourdellei Delacour, 1926 - S China (S Yunnan), E Myanmar, NE Thailand and N & C Laos. remotus (Deignan, 1957) - S Laos, S Vietnam (S Annam) and SE Cambodia. hildebrandi Hume, 1874 - S Myanmar and W Thailand. davisoni Hume, 1877 - S Myanmar (N Tenasserim) and SW Thailand.[INFO : WIKIPEDIA & IBC]