Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Grey-crowned Warbler (Seicercus tephrocephalus) - HBW 11, p. 675
French: Pouillot à calotte grise
German: Grauscheitel-Laubsänger
Spanish: Mosquitero Coronigrís
Other common names: Golden-spectacled Warbler (when combined with S. burkii, S. omeiensis, S. whistleri, S. valentini and S. soror); Black-browed Warbler/Flycatcher-warbler
Taxonomy: Culicipeta tephrocephalus J. Anderson, 1871, Bhamo, north-east Myanmar.
Formerly treated as conspecific with S. burkii, which also included S. whistleri and S. valentini, and the populations recently described as S. omeiensis and S. soror. All of these, however, exhibit constant differences in morphology, vocalizations and mitochondrial DNA, and up to four are syntopic (mainly or completely segregated altitudinally). Mitochondrial DNA also suggests that present species and S. burkii are more closely related to S. affinis and S. poliogenys than to the four other aforementioned species. Populations from W &.. View all taxonomy...
Formerly treated as conspecific with S. burkii, which also included S. whistleri and S. valentini, and the populations recently described as S. omeiensis and S. soror. All of these, however, exhibit constant differences in morphology, vocalizations and mitochondrial DNA, and up to four are syntopic (mainly or completely segregated altitudinally). Mitochondrial DNA also suggests that present species and S. burkii are more closely related to S. affinis and S. poliogenys than to the four other aforementioned species. Populations from W & N portions of range may constitute separate races; formerly recognized race distinctus appears to be synonymous with topotypical “tephrocephalus”. Monotypic.
Distribution: Breeds in NE India (Nagaland, Mizoram), W & N Myanmar, EC China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei) and N Vietnam.
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Vagrant bird perched, lateral from above.
Locality Magic Wood, Laoting, Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 15 May 2006 1 year ago 3
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