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Baeopogon

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Baeopogon is a genus of passerine birds in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.

The genus Baeopogon was introduced in 1860 by the German ornithologist Ferdinand Heine with the honeyguide greenbul as the type species.^[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek baios (βαιός) meaning "small" or "little" with pōgōn meaning "beard".^[2]

The genus contains two species:^[3]

^ Heine, Ferdinand (1860). "Catalogue of birds collected on the rivers Camma and Ogobai, Western Africa, by Mr. P. B. Chailluin 1858, with notes and descriptions of new species by John Cassin". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 8 (44): 126-145 [139].
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2021.