Malabar Whistling Thrush
Myophonus horsfieldiiVigors, NA, 1831
English (US) Malabar Whistling Thrush
The Malabar Whistling Thrush (Myophonus horsfieldii) 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: swift flowing rocky streams of peninsular IndiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Myophonus horsfieldii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Malabar Whistling Thrush
- Described by
- Vigors, NA, 1831
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Myophonus Horsfieldii
- Described by
- Vigors, NA, 1831
- Type locality
- Himalayan mountains ; restricted to Malabar by Baker, 1923, Hand-list Indian Birds, p. 93.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1, no.3 p.35
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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