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Hume's bush warbler

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Hume's bush warbler
at Walong
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
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H. brunnescens
Binomial name
Horornis brunnescens
(Hume, 1872)
Synonyms

Cettia brunnescens

Hume's bush warbler (Horornis brunnescens) is a species of bush warbler (family Cettiidae). It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

It is found in India.

The name commemorates the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume who worked in India.[1]

References

  1. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 173–174.