Biology:Erythrogenys

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Erythrogenys is a genus of scimitar babblers, jungle birds with long downcurved bills. These are birds of tropical Asia.

Taxonomy

The genus Erythrogenys was introduced in 1930 by the British ornithologist E. C. Stuart Baker. He specified the type species as Pomatorhinus erythrogens that had been described in 1831 by Nicholas Vigors.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ερυθρος/eruthros meaning "red" with γενυος/genuos meaning "cheek".[3]

The genus contains seven species:[4]

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
120px Large scimitar babbler Erythrogenys hypoleucos Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
120px Rusty-cheeked scimitar babbler Erythrogenys erythrogenys Himalayas from northeast Pakistan to Bhutan
120px Red-eyed scimitar babbler Erythrogenys imberbis (split from E. erythrogenys) east Myanmar to northwest Thailand
120px Spot-breasted scimitar babbler Erythrogenys mcclellandi Eastern Himalaya and western Myanmar
120px Black-streaked scimitar babbler Erythrogenys gravivox China, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam
120px Grey-sided scimitar babbler Erythrogenys swinhoei southern China
120px Black-necklaced scimitar babbler Erythrogenys erythrocnemis Taiwan.

References

  1. Baker, E.C. Stuart (1930). The Fauna of British India Birds including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. 7 (2nd ed.). London: Taylor and Francis. p. 192. https://archive.org/details/BakerFbiBirds7/page/n199/mode/1up. 
  2. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 528. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2. 
  3. Jobling, James A.. "Erythrogenys". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Erythrogenys. 
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (August 2024). "Babblers & fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/babblers/. 
  • 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.

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