Slaty-backed Forktail
Enicurus schistaceus(Hodgson, BH, 1836)
English (US) Slaty-backed Forktail
The Slaty-backed Forktail (Enicurus schistaceus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: rocky mountain streams of northern India to southern China and southeastern AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Enicurus schistaceus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Slaty-backed Forktail
- Described by
- (Hodgson, BH, 1836)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Motacilla (Enicurus) schistaceus
- Described by
- (Hodgson, BH, 1836)
- Type locality
- Nepal.
- Original description
- Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for enquiring into the history, the antiquities, the arts and sciences, and literature of Asia 19 p.189
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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