Hume's bush warbler
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| Species: | H. brunnescens
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| 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.
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
- ^ Template:IUCN2008
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 173–174.