Microscelis

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Microscelis is a former genus of bulbuls described by George Robert Gray in 1840.

The following species were classified within the genus Microscelis but are now assigned to Iole, Hemixos or Hypsipetes:

• Olive bulbul (as Microscelis viridescens){{Cite web|url=http://avis.indianbiodiversity.org/books/iole-virescens/43769|title=Microscelis viridescens|last=Admin|first=Avis|date=11 September 2014|website=AVIS-IBIS|language=en|access-date=5 June 2017}}
• Buff-vented bulbul (as Microscelis charlottae){{Cite web|url=https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=044240A9A44E3D4A|title=Iole charlottae – Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=5 June 2017}}
• Ashy bulbul (as Microscelis flavala){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/proceedings7071195758biol|title=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington|last1=Biological Society of Washington|last2=Smithsonian Institution|date=1882|publisher=[Washington : Biological Society of Washington]|others=Smithsonian Libraries}}{{Cite web|url=https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=2E417722&sec=summary&ssver=1|title=Hemixos flavala remotus – Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=23 October 2017}}
• Brown-eared bulbul (as Microscelis amaurotis){{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=59BEAB80AB846E86|title=Hypsipetes amaurotis – Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=5 June 2017}}
• Black bulbul (as Microscelis leucocephalus){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAIjnLp6r_MC&dq=%22Microscelis+leucocephalus%22&pg=PR7|title=Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist|last=Mayr|first=Ernst|date=1942|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674862500|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=E31E06E6&sec=summary&ssver=1|title=Hypsipetes leucocephalus ambiens - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=1 November 2017}}
• Black bulbul (psaroides) (as Microscelis psaroides){{Cite journal|last=Ali|first=Salim|date=1949|title=The Satpura Trend as an Ornithogeographical Highway|url=http://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol15_1949_8_Art11.pdf|journal=PINSA|volume=15 |issue=8|pages=386}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/faunaofbritishin01bake|title=The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma|last1=Baker|first1=Edward Charles Stuart|last2=Oates|first2=Eugene William|last3=Blanford|first3=William Thomas|date=1922|publisher=London, Taylor & Francis|others=American Museum of Natural History Library}}