Hypsipetes

Other birds include: the endemic Seychelles bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris, blue pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrima, Seychelles sunbird Nectarinia dussamieri, Seychelles kestrel Falco araea and an endemic cave-nesting swiftlet Collocalia francica elaphra.

Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles 2008

Two of the endemics are threatened (VU or above) (Megapodius nicobariensis, Hypsipetes nicobariensis).

Nicobar Islands rain forests 2008

The bird species confined to Réunion are the Réunion cuckoo-shrike (Coracina newtoni, EN), Réunion stonechat (Saxicola tectes), Réunion olive white-eye (Zosterops olivaceus), and Réunion bulbul (Hypsipetes borbonicus).

Mascarene forests 2008

Men of science in their wisdom have given the Himalayan bird the sibilant name of _Hypsipetes psaroides_.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

It is known as the black bulbul (_Hypsipetes psaroides_).

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

It is not easy to express it in words; but still this nest differs very considerably in appearance from the nests of any of the true Bulbuls with which I am acquainted, and more approaches those of _Hypsipetes_.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

_Hypsipetes psaroides_ (of which also be sent me specimens), and the fact is that in thick foliage where the Red-bill is not seen nothing is easier than to mistake this bird for _D. longicaudatus_.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Kotagherry exhibit the same general characters; but the majority of them are considerably elongated eggs, approaching, so far as shape is concerned, the _Hypsipetes_ type.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The nest of _Hypsipetes psaroides_ is usually made of rather coarse-bladed grass, with exteriorly a number of dry leaves, and more or less moss incorporated, and lined with very fine grass-stems and roots of moss.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

This egg, moreover, possesses a degree of gloss never observable in those of the _Dicruri_, and therefore, well assured though Mr. Brooks is of the parentage of this egg which he took with his own hands, I feel confident, having since obtained many eggs of _Hypsipetes psaroides_ which are exactly similar to this last described egg, that in, perhaps, indifferent light he mistook this bird for a _Dicrurus_.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870