Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Paradoxornis webbianus) - HBW 12, p. 314

Taxonomy: Suthora Webbiana Gould, 1852, Shanghai, Jiangsu, China.
Sometimes placed together with P. conspicillatus, P. brunneus, P. alphonsianus, P. zappeyi, P. przewalskii, P. fulvifrons, P. nipalensis, P. verreauxi and P. atrosuperciliaris in a separate genus, Suthora. Considered conspecific with P. brunneus and, especially, P. alphonsianus by some authors. Where range overlaps with that of latter, the two species are sometimes found in mixed flocks in which occasional hybrids reported, e.g. in Vietnam (near Sa Pa, in W Tonkin), and hybrids seen also in NW Italy (where both species introduced); in China, interbreeding reported in 1938 in C Sichuan, and a number of earlier specimens from that region were considered to present a range of features intermediate between the two species, but insufficient details available. Race suffusus poorly marked, perhaps better united with nominate; elisabethae doubtfully distinct from suffusus (exact SW geographical limits of which are unclear), and the single type was a specimen in full moult (colour, which varies considerably with wear, an unsatisfactory character for racial diagnosis). Entire Korean population included in race fulvicauda, but those in extreme N possibly belong with mantschuricus. Six subspecies currently recognized.