Brown-breasted Flycatcher
Muscicapa muttui(Layard, EL, 1854)
English (US) Brown-breasted Flycatcher
The Brown-breasted Flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui) 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: breeds northeastern India to southern China and northern Vietnam; winters to Sri LankaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Muscicapa muttui
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher
- Described by
- (Layard, EL, 1854)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Butalis Muttui
- Described by
- (Layard, EL, 1854)
- Type locality
- Point Pedro, Ceylon.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.2, vol.13, no.74 p.127
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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