Rodrigues bulbul | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Infraorder: | Passerides |
Family: | Pycnonotidae |
Genus: | Hypsipetes |
Species: | †H. cowlesi
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Binomial name | |
†Hypsipetes cowlesi
Hume, 2015
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The Rodrigues bulbul (Hypsipetes cowlesi) is an extinct bird which was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, the easternmost of the Mascarene Islands group of the western Indian Ocean. [1] It is known only from subfossil remains collected in 1974. [2]