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John Holmes 11/02/2013 16:52

Yongde County, Yunnan Province

Some photos and an outline of a trip report from Yongde County, southwest Yunnan.  

More here: [url]http://johnjemi.blogspot.hk/2013/02/the-road-to-daxueshan.html[/url]

kmike 11/02/2013 20:22

John, Do you know if this newly split minla is the same as the one in Thailand?

BH Shrike-Babbler is a great bird to photograph!

Cheers
Mike

John Holmes 12/02/2013 07:36

"Bar-throated Whatever"

Hi Mike,

Craig Robson's "Birds of SE Asia" has updated the scientific family name from [b]Minla[/b] to [b]Chrysominla[/b], and the English name has been changed - arbitrarily, I feel - from "Chestnut-tailed Minla", now to "Bar-throated Minla".

(Twenty years ago this species was "Bar-throated [u]Siva[/u]" in Salim Ali's books, and perhaps the name will return in another decade. I notice that the former Blue-winged [u]Minla[/u] has become Blue-winged [u]Siva[/u] recently.  So it's gone the other way….. very confusing ! )

But despite the name changes I don't think this one has been "split"…unless I've missed something, which is entirely possible. According to C. Robson's tome, the race in Thailand is [i][b]castanicauda[/b][/i] and the one in Yunnan is - wait for it - [i][b]yunnanensis[/b][/i].

Keep smiling

John
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