Black-crowned Scimitar Babbler
Pomatorhinus ferruginosusBlyth, E, 1845
English (US) Black-crowned Scimitar Babbler
The Black-crowned Scimitar Babbler (Pomatorhinus ferruginosus) 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 Timaliidae (Tree Babblers, Scimitar Babblers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Himalayas (eastern Nepal to eastern Assam north of the Brahmaputra)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pomatorhinus ferruginosus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-crowned Scimitar Babbler
- Described by
- Blyth, E, 1845
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- P[omatorhinus] ferruginosus
- Described by
- Blyth, E, 1845
- Type locality
- Darjeeling, West Bengal, and Arakan; inferentially restricted to Darjeeling, by Blyth, 1847, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 16, p. 452.
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 14, pt.2, no.164 p.597
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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