Horornis

Horornis
The brown-flanked bush warbler (Horornis fortipes)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cettiidae
Genus:	Horornis Hodgson, 1845
Type species
Horornis fortipes Hodgson , 1845
Species
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These bush warblers tend towards rich or greyish browns above and buffish or light grey tones below. They have little patterning apart from the ubiquitous supercilium. Altogether, they appear much like the plainer species among Acrocephalus marsh warblers in coloration. Megalurid bush warblers tend to be somewhat slimmer and have a very long and pointed tail, but are otherwise very similar.

Species

This genus has been split from the genus Cettia. Cetti's warbler (C. cetti), the previous type species, seems close to the genus Tesia from Southeast Asia and neighboring regions. Birds in the genus Horornis, such as the famous uguisu (鶯, Japanese bush warbler, H. diphone) and the brown-flanked bush warbler (H. fortipes) belong to a group that might include the aberrant broad-billed warbler (Tickellia hodgsoni). This latter species differs wildly in its gaudy colors but in habitus is a typical "bush warbler".^[1]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Manchurian bush warbler	Horornis canturians	northeastern China.
	Japanese bush warbler	Horornis diphone	Japan
	Philippine bush warbler	Horornis seebohmi	Philippines.
	Palau bush warbler	Horornis annae	Palau.
	Shade bush warbler	Horornis parens	Solomon Islands
	Bougainville bush warbler	Horornis haddeni	Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
	Fiji bush warbler	Horornis ruficapilla	Fiji.
	Tanimbar bush warbler	Horornis carolinae	Yamdena
	Brown-flanked bush warbler	Horornis fortipes	South Asia
	Aberrant bush warbler	Horornis flavolivaceus	southern China, and the northern extremes of Myanmar and Vietnam
	Yellow-bellied bush warbler	Horornis acanthizoides	mainland China and Taiwan
	Hume's bush warbler	Horornis brunnescens	Himalayas of Nepal and India.

Footnotes

References

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