Ī study by Ulf Johansson and colleagues using three nuclear markers published in 2007 found that the genus Andropadus was non-monophyletic.
In addition, the genus Nicator containing three African species is now placed in a separate family Nicatoridae. Several Malagasy species that were formerly placed in the genus Phyllastrephus are now placed in the family Bernieridae. Ī few species that were previously considered to be members of the Pycnonotidae have been moved to other families. The word bulbul derives from Hindi (बुलबुल) or Persian or Arabic (بلبل), meaning nightingale, but in English, bulbul refers to passerine birds of a different family. The family Pycnonotidae was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840 as a subfamily Pycnonotinae of the thrush family Turdidae.
