Babblers (Timaliidae)
Grey-sided Scimitar-babbler (Pomatorhinus swinhoei) - HBW 12, p. 167
French: Pomatorhin de Swinhoe
German: Grauflankensäbler
Spanish: Cimitarra Flanquigrís
Taxonomy: Pomatorhinus Swinhoei David, 1874, western Fujian, China.
Forms a species group, and has commonly been treated as conspecific, with P. erythrogenys, P. mcclellandi, P. gravivox and P. erythrocnemis, all having similar plumage. Geographical variation possibly clinal; race abbreviatus may be based on clinal differences, and species perhaps better treated as monotypic. Two subspecies tentatively recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- swinhoei David, 1874 - E China (S Anhui, E Jiangxi, S Zhejiang, N Fujian).
- abbreviatus Stresemann, 1929 - SE China (NE Guangxi, S Hunan, N Guangdong).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Poor view of an individual perched in a tree.
Locality Wuyishan (Wuyi Mountains), Jiangxi, China (Northern) (ssp swinhoei)
James Eaton 1 May 2008 18 weeks ago 2.7
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birds calling Locality Yihuang County, Jiangxi, China (Southern)
Desmond Allen 31 December 1995 3 years ago 3.5
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