Mixornis

Mixornis
Pin-striped tit-babbler, (Mixornis gularis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Timaliidae
Genus:	Mixornis Blyth, 1842
Type species
Timalia chloris [1] = Motacilla rubicapilla Blyth, 1842

Mixornis is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae.

Taxonomy

These species were formerly placed in the genus Macronus . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that Macronus was not monophyletic. To create monophyletic genera Macronus was split and some species moved to the resurrected genus Mixornis. ^{[2] [3]} Mixornis had been introduced in 1842 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth to accommodate the taxon Timalia chloris. This is a 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
	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
	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

1. "Timalidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Babblers & fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
3. Moyle, R.G.; Andersen, M.J.; Oliveros, C.H.; Steinheimer, F.D.; Reddy, S. (2012). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the core babblers (Aves: Timaliidae)". Systematic Biology. 61 (4): 631–651. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/sys027 . PMID   22328569.
4. Blyth, Edward (1842). "Report from the curator". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 11, Part 2 (128): 788-799 [794, note].
5. 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.
6. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 257. 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.