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[China] Yongde County, Yunnan Province

Yongde County, Yunnan Province

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

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

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Bar-throated (formerly "Chestnut-tailed") Minla

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Black-headed Shrike Babbler

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Grey-cheeked Fulvetta

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"Bar-throated Whatever"

Hi Mike,

Craig Robson's "Birds of SE Asia" has updated the scientific family name from Minla to Chrysominla, 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 Siva" in Salim Ali's books, and perhaps the name will return in another decade. I notice that the former Blue-winged Minla has become Blue-winged Siva 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 castanicauda and the one in Yunnan is - wait for it - yunnanensis.

Keep smiling

John
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