Hume's bush warbler

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Hume's bush warbler
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cettiidae
Genus: Horornis
Species:
H. brunnescens
Binomial name
Horornis brunnescens
(Hume, 1872)
Horornis brunnescens distribution map.png
Synonyms

Cettia brunnescens

Hume's bush warbler (Horornis brunnescens) is a species of bush warbler (family Cettiidae). It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

It is found in the Himalayas of Nepal and India.

It was formerly considered conspecific with the yellow-bellied bush warbler.

The name commemorates the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume who worked in India. [2]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Horornis brunnescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22735325A95108225. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22735325A95108225.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 173–174.