Black-browed bushtit

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Black-browed bushtit

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Aegithalidae
Genus: Aegithalos
Species:
A. bonvaloti
Binomial name
Aegithalos bonvaloti
(Oustalet, 1892)
Subspecies[2]
  • A. b. bonvaloti - (Oustalet, 1892)
  • A. b. obscuratus - (Mayr, 1940)

The black-browed bushtit or black-browed tit (Aegithalos bonvaloti) is a species of

rufous-fronted tit (A. iouschistos) of the central and eastern Himalayas
but is now often regarded as a separate species. Sometimes the subspecies A. b. sharpei (Burmese tit) of western Burma is also treated as a species.

It is a small, long-tailed bird, 11–12 centimetres (4.3–4.7 in) long. It has grey upperparts, rufous breast and flanks and a white belly. The head is buff with a broad black mask, white forehead and a white bib, speckled black in the centre. The Burmese tit has white rather than buff on the head, a dark breastband and a buff belly.

References

  1. . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.
  • MacKinnon, John & Karen Phillipps (2000) A Field Guide to the Birds of China, Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Robson, Craig (2002) A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia, New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd., London