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Penduline-tits (Remizidae)

White-crowned Penduline-tit (Remiz coronatus) - HBW 13, p. 70

French: Rémiz couronnée German: Kronenbeutelmeise Spanish: Pájaro-moscón Coronado
Other common names: Crowned/Black-headed(!) Penduline-tit

Taxonomy: Aegithalus [sic] coronatus Severtsov, 1873, Nau, near Khodzhent, Tajikistan.
Forms a species group with R. pendulinus, R. macronyx and R. consobrinus, and all four often combined as one species; probably most closely related to R. pendulinus, but sometimes considered conspecific with R. consobrinus (the other two then united as a separate species). Treatment as four distinct species based mainly on structural, as well as plumage and habitat, differences; present species differs from others in genus in bill and leg structure, as well as habitat preferences. Races intergrade in SE Kazakhstan. Proposed races centralasiae (from C .. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Aegithalus [sic] coronatus Severtsov, 1873, Nau, near Khodzhent, Tajikistan.
Forms a species group with R. pendulinus, R. macronyx and R. consobrinus, and all four often combined as one species; probably most closely related to R. pendulinus, but sometimes considered conspecific with R. consobrinus (the other two then united as a separate species). Treatment as four distinct species based mainly on structural, as well as plumage and habitat, differences; present species differs from others in genus in bill and leg structure, as well as habitat preferences. Races intergrade in SE Kazakhstan. Proposed races centralasiae (from C Asia) and yeniseensis (from Sayan and Tannu-ola, on upper course of R Yenisey, in S Russia) both considered inseparable from stoliczkae. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • coronatus (Severtsov, 1873) - breeds S & SE Kazakhstan, N Uzbekistan, S Turkmenistan and Amu Darya valley, Kyrgyzstan, NW China (Ili valley, in NW Xinjiang), Tajikistan and NE (probably also NW) Afghanistan; non-breeding E Iran, N & W Afghanistan, Pakistan and NW India (E to Haryana).
  • stoliczkae (Hume, 1874) - breeds E Kazakhstan, S Russia (from Altai E to Chita, in S Transbaikalia), NW & C Mongolia and NW & N China (Xinjiang E, excluding Ili valley, to Ürümqi; N Ningxia).

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