Silver-throated bushtit
| Silver-throated bushtit | |
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| A. g. vinaceus, Shandong Province , China.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Aegithalidae |
| Genus: | Aegithalos |
| Species: | A. glaucogularis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegithalos glaucogularis (Gould, 1855)
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The silver-throated bushtit or silver-throated tit (Aegithalos glaucogularis) is a
passerine bird in the family Aegithalidae, widespread throughout the temperate forests of Central, East and parts of North and Western China. The bird's native habitats are mainly along the middle/lower Yangtze and Yellow River basins, although there is also a small southwestern habitat extension in Yunnan along the Lancang valley within the Hengduan Mountains. It has two recognized subspecies
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History
A paper on the silver-throated bushtit by the English naturalist
type locality as Shanghai.[3] As Gould's work appeared in print in 1855 before the publication of the proceedings of the Zoological Society, under the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Gould's publication has priority.[4] The name glaucogularis combines the Latin glaucus "glaucous" and the Neo-Latin gularis "throated".[5]
Taxonomy
The silver-throated bushtit was formerly considered a subspecies of the long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) but its plumage is distinctive and there are significant genetic differences.[6][7]
Two subspecies are recognized:[8]
- A. g. glaucogularis (
- A. g. vinaceus (subalpine subspecies, native to the Yellow River basin in North China with habitat extensions into western Liaoning, central Gansu, eastern Qinghai, western Sichuan and Yunnan
Hubei Province
, China.References
- . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- . The title page of the issue gives the year as 1854 but it was published in 1855.
- ^ Gould, John (1855). The Birds of Asia. Vol. 2. London: self. Plate 69 and text.
- ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- . Retrieved 24 March 2018.
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- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Bushtits, leaf warblers, reed warblers". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
External links
- Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the silver-throated bushtit
Media related to Aegithalos glaucogularis at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Aegithalos glaucogularis at Wikispecies
