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Introduced to Fiji, French Polynesia, Kuwait (B), New Caledonia, New Zealand (E) (B), Oman, Qatar (B) (NB), Samoa, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, USA.

In north-western India, often hybridizes with Himalayan Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucogenys). Sometimes hybridizes also with White-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis). Subspecies saturatus was invalidated (and replaced by wetmorei), as preoccupied by a subspecies of Andropadus latirostris, which was previously placed in present genus. Several described subspecies considered too weakly differentiated and therefore synonymized: thus, in India, primrosei (Assam) and afer (Meghalaya) are junior synonyms of bengalensis, and vicinus (Mysore) and pusillus (north-eastern Tamil Nadu) junior synonyms of nominate.

The following 11 subspecies are recognised:

• intermedius Blyth, 1846   -  Western Himalayas from Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir eastern at least to Nepal.
• humayuni Deignan, 1951   -  South-eastern Pakistan (Sind) and north-western and north-central India (including northern plains).
• bengalensis Blyth, 1845   -  Central and eastern Himalayas and Gangetic Plain, and Bangladesh.
• stanfordi Deignan, 1949   -  North-eastern India (southern Assam hills), northern Myanmar and southern China (western Yunnan).
• melanchimus Deignan, 1949   -  Southern Myanmar and northern Thailand.
• saturatus (Whistler and Kinnear, 1932)   -  North-eastern Peninsular India.
• cafer (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Southern India.
• haemorrhousus (Gmelin, JF, 1789)   -  Sri Lanka.
• wetmorei Deignan, 1960   -  North-eastern peninsular India.
• primrosei Deignan, 1949   -  Southern Assam (southern of the Brahmaputra), Bangladesh and West Bengal.
• pusillus Blyth, 1841   -  Southern India (Bombay, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra to Kerala).

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