see text Hypsipetes is a genus of bulbuls, songbirds in the family Pycnonotidae.

But while the genus is quite diverse in the Madagascar region at the western end of its range it does not reach the African mainland.

Most Hypsipetes bulbuls are dark greyish birds with orange or red bills and feet.

The feathers on top of the head are slightly elongated and usually black, and can be erected to form a short and wispy crest.

[1] This taxon is now a subspecies of the black bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus psaroides.