Mixornis
| Mixornis | |
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| Pin-striped tit-babbler, (Mixornis gularis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae |
| Genus: | Mixornis Blyth, 1842 |
| Type species | |
| Timalia chloris[1] = Motacilla rubicapilla Blyth, 1842
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Mixornis is a
Timaliidae
.
Taxonomy
These species were formerly placed in the genus junior synonym of Macronous gularis rubicapillus which had been described in 1833 by Samuel Tickell. It is now one of the subspecies of the pin-striped tit-babbler (Mixornis gularis rubicapilla).[2][4][5] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mixis meaning "mixed" or "mingling" with ornis meaning "bird".[6]
Species
The genus includes the following species:[2]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Pin-striped tit-babbler | Mixornis gularis | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam |
| Bold-striped tit-babbler | Mixornis bornensis | Borneo, and Java | |
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Grey-cheeked tit-babbler | Mixornis flavicollis | Java |
| Kangean tit-babbler | Mixornis prillwitzi | the Kangean Islands | |
| Grey-faced tit-babbler | Mixornis kelleyi | Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam |
References
- ^ "Timalidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Babblers & fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
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- ^ Blyth, Edward (1842). "Report from the curator". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 11, Part 2 (128): 788-799 [794, note].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 318.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.