Olive-breasted greenbul | |
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Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pycnonotidae |
Genus: | Arizelocichla |
Species: | A. kikuyuensis |
Binomial name | |
Arizelocichla kikuyuensis (Sharpe, 1891) |
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The olive-breasted greenbul (Arizelocichla kikuyuensis) is a species of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is found in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, south-western and south-eastern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and central Kenya.
The olive-breasted greenbul was originally described in the genus Xenocichla (a synonym for Bleda), then classified in Andropadus and, in 2010 re-classified to the new genus Arizelocichla. Also, some authorities consider the olive-breasted greenbul to be a subspecies of western greenbul or the mountain greenbul. Alternate names for the olive-breasted greenbul include the Kikuyu grey-throated greenbul and western mountain greenbul. The alternate name 'western mountain greenbul' is also used by the western greenbul.