Editing Common bulbul (section)

==Taxonomy and systematics==
The common bulbul was [[species description|formally described]] and illustrated in 1789 by the French botanist [[René Louiche Desfontaines|René Desfontaines]] from a specimen collected near [[Algiers]] in Algeria. He placed it with the thrushes in the [[genus]] ''[[Turdus]]'' and coined the [[binomial name]] ''Turdus barbatus''.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Desfontaines | first=René Louiche | author-link=René Louiche Desfontaines | date=1787 | publication-date=1789 | title=Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux des côtes de Barbarie | language=French | journal=Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Science | pages=496-505 [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28011230 500], [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28011239 Plate 12] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28011230 }} For a discussion of the publication date see: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | page=200 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 | ref=none }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1960 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=9 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology  | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=239 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480914 }}</ref> The common bulbul is now one of 31 species placed in the genus ''[[Pycnonotus]]'' that was introduced in 1826 by the German zoologist [[Friedrich Boie]].<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Bulbuls | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bulbuls/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=6 March 2025}}</ref> The genus name combines the [[Ancient Greek]] πυκνος/''puknos'' meaning "thick" or "compact" with -νωτος/''-nōtos'' meaning "-backed".<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Pycnonotus | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Pycnonotus | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=6 March 2025 }}</ref> The specific epithet ''barbatus'' is [[Latin]] meaning ''bearded''.<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=barbatus | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=barbatus | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=6 March 2025 }}</ref> Alternate names for the common bulbul include black-eyed bulbul, black-capped bulbul and common garden bulbul.<ref name=hbw>{{ cite book | last1=Fishpool | first1=L.D.C. |last2=Tobias | first2=J.A. | year=2005 | chapter=Family Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Christie | editor3-first=D.A. | title=Handbook of the Birds of the World | volume=10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes | location=Barcelona, Spain | publisher=Lynx Edicions | isbn=978-84-87334-72-6 | pages=124–250 [181–182] | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0010unse/page/181/mode/1up | chapter-url-access=registration }}</ref>

Ten [[subspecies]] are recognised. Several of these have sometimes been treated as separate species based on the differences in plumage but the differences are [[Cline (biology)|clinal]] and there are no significant vocal differences.<ref name=ioc/>
* ''P. b. barbatus'' ([[René Louiche Desfontaines|Desfontaines]], 1789) – Morocco to Tunisia
* ''P. b. inornatus'' ([[Louis Fraser|Fraser]], 1843) – south Mauritania and Senegal to west Chad and north Cameroon
* ''P. b. gabonensis'' [[Richard Bowdler Sharpe|Sharpe]], 1871 – central Nigeria and central Cameroon to Gabon and south Congo
* ''P. b. arsinoe'' ([[Hinrich Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein, MHC]], 1823) – east Chad, north, central Sudan and east Egypt
* ''P. b. schoanus'' [[Oscar Neumann|Neumann]], 1905 – southeast Sudan, west, central, east Ethiopia, Eritrea
* ''P. b. dodsoni'' Sharpe, 1895 – north Somalia and southeast Ethiopia to central east Kenya (Dodson's bulbul)
* ''P. b. somaliensis'' [[Anton Reichenow|Reichenow]], 1905 – Djibouti, northwest Somalia and northeast Ethiopia (Somali bulbul)
* ''P. b. spurius'' Reichenow, 1905 – south Ethiopia (Dark-capped bulbul group)
* ''P. b. layardi'' [[John Henry Gurney Sr.|Gurney, JH Sr]], 1879 – southeast Kenya to east, south Zambia, northeast Botswana and South Africa (Dark-capped bulbul group)
* ''P. b. tricolor'' ([[Gustav Hartlaub|Hartlaub]], 1862) – east Cameroon to DR Congo, south Sudan, west, central Kenya, Angola, northwest Botswana and north, west Zambia (Dark-capped bulbul group)