Biology:Greyish-crowned leafbird
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Short description: Species of bird
| Greyish-crowned leafbird | |
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| Male, at the National Aviary | |
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| Female, at Mount Sanqing | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Chloropseidae |
| Genus: | Chloropsis |
| Species: | C. lazulina
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| Binomial name | |
| Chloropsis lazulina (Swinhoe, 1870)
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The greyish-crowned leafbird (Chloropsis lazulina) is a bird native to southern China south to Vietnam. The subspecies melliana is the one found throughout most of the range, while the nominate subspecies lazulina is endemic to Hainan Island. The orange-bellied leafbird (C. hardwickii), which ranges from the Himalayas to southeast Tibet and Yunnan of China , northern Laos and the Malay Peninsula, was formerly considered conspecific.[1]
References
Wikidata ☰ Q31874650 entry
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