Yellow-streaked greenbul | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pycnonotidae |
Genus: | Phyllastrephus |
Species: | P. flavostriatus |
Binomial name | |
Phyllastrephus flavostriatus Sharpe, 1876 |
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Synonyms | |
Phyllastrephus alfredi (Shelley, 1903) |
Phyllastrephus alfredi (Shelley, 1903)
The yellow-streaked greenbul or yellow-streaked bulbul (Phyllastrephus flavostriatus) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The subspecies P. f. alfredi is sometimes regarded as a separate species, Sharpe's greenbul. The common name of this subspecies commemorates the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.