Penduline-tits (Remizidae)

Chinese Penduline-tit (Remiz consobrinus) - HBW 13, p. 70

French: Rémiz de Chine German: Chinabeutelmeise Spanish: Pájaro-moscón Chino
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Taxonomy: Aegithalus [sic] consobrinus Swinhoe, 1870, Sha-she (= Shasi), below Ichang, Hubei, China.
Forms a species group with R. pendulinus, R. macronyx and R. coronatus, and all four often combined as one species; probably most closely related to R. pendulinus, but sometimes considered conspecific with R. coronatus (and the other two then united as a separate species). Treatment as four distinct species based mainly on structural, as well as plumage and habitat, differences. Monotypic.

Distribution: Breeds locally in Russian Far East and in NE China (in E Nei Mongol and adjacent Heilongjiang, NW Jilin, S Ningxia, possibly also S Liaoning); non-breeding mainly E & S China (middle and lower Yangtze valley, also Yunnan and Hong Kong), S Korea and S Japan (chiefly Kyushu and Honshu).