And my venerable old copy of Robert's Birds of South Africa calls
it Black-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus), as does my copy of Birds of
Malawi (Benson and Benson c.1975). Williams and Arlott (1980) call
_barbatus_ "Yellow-vented Bulbul" which is how I first learned it back
in my Peace Corps days. Different authors (and different countries)
interpret the number of distinct species differently.

My advice, if you plan on becoming a world-traveling birder, is to
get a copy of ?Birds of the World: A Check List?, by James F. Clements
and stick to that list. Yes, you're over-all list will probably be
smaller, but this is the "official" world list for the ABA. And keep
a secondary list of these outliers (mine's in the margin of the
dissenting field guides).



RE: african bird
From: "Christine Vadai" <cvadai AT verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:51:30 -0800

Hi Larry and Bruce,

Sinclair/Ryan's Birds of Africa (2003) also has it labeled "Dark-capped
(Black-eyed) Bulbul", Pycnonotus tricolor. It must have been reclassified
around 2000.

-Christine

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Newmans book is 1994 not 1914 sorry
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