Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalidae)
Burmese Tit (Aegithalos sharpei) - HBW 13, p. 98
French: Mésange de Sharpe
German: Burmaschwanzmeise
Spanish: Mito Birmano
Other common names: Myanmar Tit
Taxonomy: Aegithaliscus sharpei Rippon, 1904, Mount Victoria, southern Chin Hills, Myanmar.
Forms a superspecies with A. niveogularis, A. iouschistos and A. bonvaloti; all four sometimes treated as conspecific, but they seem to be morphologically fairly distinct from one another and, while ranges overlap only minimally or not at all, there is no evidence of intergradation or hybridization between any of them. Present species usually treated as conspecific with A. bonvaloti (sometimes with both A. bonvaloti and A. iouschistos when these are combined), but distinctive appearance (closer to that of A. niveogularis) and geographically rem.. View all taxonomy...
Forms a superspecies with A. niveogularis, A. iouschistos and A. bonvaloti; all four sometimes treated as conspecific, but they seem to be morphologically fairly distinct from one another and, while ranges overlap only minimally or not at all, there is no evidence of intergradation or hybridization between any of them. Present species usually treated as conspecific with A. bonvaloti (sometimes with both A. bonvaloti and A. iouschistos when these are combined), but distinctive appearance (closer to that of A. niveogularis) and geographically remote distribution justify its treatment as a distinct species. Monotypic.
Distribution: Mt Victoria and Mindat, in S Chin Hills of SW Myanmar.
- Least Concern
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