Thursday, April 12, 2012

>Aegithalos bonvaloti (Black-browed Tit)

Black-browed Tit



Black-browed Tit
Conservation status
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Aegithalidae
Genus:Aegithalos
Species:A. bonvaloti
Binomial name
Aegithalos bonvaloti
(Oustalet, 1892)
The Black-browed Tit (Aegithalos bonvaloti) is a species of bird in the Aegithalidae family. It is found inChina and Burma. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Rufous-fronted Tit (A. iouschistos) of the central and eastern Himalayas but is now often regarded as a separate species. Sometimes the subspecies A. b. sharpei (Burmese Tit) of western Burma is also treated as a species.
It is a small, long-tailed bird, 11–12 cm long. It has grey upperparts, rufous breast and flanks and a white belly. The head is buff with a broad black mask, white forehead and a white bib, speckled black in the centre. The Burmese Tit has white rather than buff on the head, a dark breastband and a buff belly.

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