Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)

Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus) - HBW 11, p. 655

French: Pouillot brun German: Dunkellaubsänger Spanish: Mosquitero Sombrío
Other common names: Dusky Leaf-warbler, Dusky Willow Warbler

Taxonomy: Phillopneuste [sic] fuscata Blyth, 1842, Calcutta area, India.
Has sometimes been treated as conspecific with P. fuligiventer. Three subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • fuscatus (Blyth, 1842) - breeds C & E Siberia from R Ob’ E to R Anadyr basin, S to Tomsk region, Mongolia, NE China and Russian Far East (Ussuriland); non-breeding S China, N Vietnam and Taiwan.
  • robustus Stresemann, 1924 - breeds NC China (Gansu and Inner Mongolia to N Sichuan); non-breeding N Thailand and Laos.
  • weigoldi Stresemann, 1924 - breeds WC China (S Qinghai and E Xizang E to NW Sichuan); non-breeding Himalayan foothills of Nepal E to NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur), Bangladesh, Andaman Is and N Myanmar.