Tits and Chickadees (Paridae)

Black-lored Tit (Parus xanthogenys)

French: Mésange à joues jaunes German: Kronenmeise Spanish: Carbonero Carigualdo Indio
Other common names: Black-lored Yellow Tit, Black-spotted Tit; Indian Yellow Tit (aplonotus)

Taxonomy: Parus xanthogenys Vigors, 1831, Simla-Almora district, Himalayas, India.
Forms a superspecies with P. spilonotus, and has in the past been considered conspecific. Races aplonotus and travancoreensis have been treated as representing one or, alternatively, two separate species; they intergrade in Western Ghats (between Konkan and Hassan), in W of range, where intermediates described as additional race, xanthonotus (female with crown varying between black and greenish, or olive-greenish with darker spots, whitish-yellow face and sides of breast and belly contrasting with well-defined bib and ventral stripe). Three subspecies recognized.

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