Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Margarops fuscus) - HBW 10, p. 482
French: Moqueur grivotte
German: Schuppenspottdrossel
Spanish: Cuitlacoche Oscuro
Taxonomy: Muscicapa fusca Statius Muller, 1776, Martinique.
Sometimes placed in a monotypic genus Allenia; such treatment supported also by recent mtDNA work, but further research needed. Listed delimitations of races uncertain, and not congruent with recent mtDNA data; further study required. Five subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- hypenemus Buden, 1993 - N Lesser Antilles from St Martin, Saba and St Barthélémy S to Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante.
- fuscus (Statius Muller, 1776) - C & S Lesser Antilles (Dominica, Martinique and, disjunctly, Grenada).
- schwartzi Buden, 1993 - St Lucia, in SC Lesser Antilles.
- hypenemus Buden, 1993 - N Lesser Antilles from St Martin, Saba and St Barthélémy S to Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante.
- fuscus (Statius Muller, 1776) - C & S Lesser Antilles (Dominica, Martinique and, disjunctly, Grenada).
- schwartzi Buden, 1993 - St Lucia, in SC Lesser Antilles.
- vincenti Kratter & Garrido, 1996 - St Vincent, in S Lesser Antilles.
- atlanticus Buden, 1993 - Barbados.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Ventral view of bird perched in a bush
Locality Nevis Island, Saint Kitts and Nevis (ssp hypenemus)
Mikko Pyhälä 8 November 2009 3 years ago 3.4 -
On a branch
Locality Pigeon Island National Park, Saint Lucia
Guy Poisson 9 April 2011 2 years ago 3
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