Hume's bush warbler
| Hume's bush warbler | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cettiidae |
| Genus: | Horornis |
| Species: | H. brunnescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Horornis brunnescens (Hume, 1872)
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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 the Himalayas of Nepal and India.
It is formerly considered conspecific with the yellow-bellied bush warbler.
The name commemorates the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume who worked in India.[2]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2008). "Cettia brunnescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 173–174.