Brown-headed Barbet (Psilopogon zeylanicus) [XC754342]
by Vikrant Prabhulkar from My House, Ranvi, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India (call, song)
Brown-headed Barbet (Psilopogon zeylanicus) [XC467588]
by Rajgopal Patil from Dehradun, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India (call, song)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Lineated Barbet (Psilopogon lineatus), and in past often treated as conspecific; they are narrowly sympatric in northern India and south-western Nepal, but with no apparent hybridization. Possibly related also to White-cheeked Barbet (Psilopogon viridis) and Green-eared Barbet (Psilopogon faiostrictus), but not very closely. Western Himalayan birds (Kangra to Garhwal) previously recognized as subspecies kangrae, but now considered inseparable from caniceps.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
caniceps (Franklin, 1831) - South-western Nepal and northern India (Punjab and Uttar Pradesh south to northern Maharashtra, Orissa and Bihar).
inornatus Walden, 1870 - Central-western and south-western India (Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka).
zeylanicus (J. F. Gmelin, 1788) - Southern India (Kerala, southern Tamil Nadu) and Sri Lanka.