Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)

Whistler's Warbler (Seicercus whistleri) - HBW 11, p. 676

French: Pouillot de Whistler German: Whistlerlaubsänger Spanish: Mosquitero de Whistler
Other common names: Golden-spectacled Warbler (when combined with S. burkii, S.tephrocephalus, S. omeiensis, S. valentini and S. soror); Yellow-eyed/Black-browed Warbler/Flycatcher-warbler

Taxonomy: Seicercus burkii whistleri Ticehurst, 1925, Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Formerly treated as conspecific with S. burkii, which also included S. tephrocephalus 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. Race nemoralis has been treated as a separate species on basis of plumage differences, but these are rather minor and possibly clinal, and songs appear identical. Two subspecies recognized.

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