Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
Pale-chinned Flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) - HBW 11, p. 153
French: Gobemouche de Brooks
German: Grauwangenschnäpper
Spanish: Papamoscas de Brooks
Other common names: Pale-chinned Blue-flycatcher, Brooks’s (Blue) Flycatcher
Taxonomy: Cyornis poliogenys W. E. Brooks, 1879, Salbaree, Sikkim terai, India.
Taxonomic status of this species and C. tickelliae uncertain; the two hybridize extensively in E India (Eastern Ghats), and race vernayi recently considered to be the product of such interbreeding; detailed review of both forms urgently required. Four subspecies provisionally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- poliogenys W. E. Brooks, 1879 - C Himalayas E to NE India (W & S Assam, Meghalaya), E Bangladesh and SW Myanmar.
- cachariensis (Madarász, 1884) - E Himalayas in S China (SE Xizang), NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, E & SE Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram) and NW Myanmar.
- laurentei (La Touche, 1921) - S China (W & SE Yunnan).
- vernayi Whistler, 1931 - Eastern Ghats, in E India.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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singing male Locality Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India (ssp cachariensis)
Martin Kennewell 6 April 2010 2 years ago 28 sec 2.3
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It is adult, male of Brook's Flycatcher .
Locality Pune Division, Maharashtra, India
neha_vindhya 12 February 2011 1 year ago 2
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song Locality Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Assam, India
Desmond Allen 1 March 1998 2 years ago 4 -
bird singing Locality Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Assam, India
Desmond Allen 1 March 1998 2 years ago 4
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