Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Snowy-browed Flycatcher

Friday 26 September 2014

Snowy-browed Flycatcher

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers and Chats)

Snowy-browed Flycatcher

Ficedula hyperythra

棕胸蓝姬鹟 (zōng xiōng lán jī wēng) / 黄胸青鹟 (huáng-xiōng qīng-wēng)

Malay : Sambar Gunung Dahi Putih

Japanese : ムネアカビタキ (mune-aka-bitaki)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 胸赤鶲

Taxonomy update for 2015

The Philippine subspecies of Snowy-browed Flycatcher are split as a new species, Bundok Flycatcher (Fidecula luzoniensis). :

- Snowy-browed Flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra)
- Bundok Flycatcher (Ficedula luzoniensis)

Size : 11-13 cm, 6-10 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Ficedula hyperythra hyperythra (Blyth, 1843)
– C & E Himalayas E to NE India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram), W, N & E Myanmar, SC China (SE Xizang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan), N Thailand and N & C Indochina; winters at lower altitudes, and S to Bangladesh and C Myanmar.
Ficedula hyperythra annamensis (Robinson & Kloss, 1919)
– SC Vietnam (Langbian).
Ficedula hyperythra innexa (Swinhoe, 1866)
– Taiwan.
Ficedula hyperythra sumatrana (Hachisuka, 1926)
– Malay Peninsula and highlands of W Sumatra and N Borneo.
Ficedula hyperythra mjobergi (E. J. O. Hartert, 1925)
– Poi Mts, in W Borneo.
Ficedula hyperythra vulcani (Robinson, 1918)
– Java, Bali and W Lesser Sundas (Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores).
Ficedula hyperythra calayensis (McGregor, 1921)
– Calayan (off N Luzon), in N Philippines.
Ficedula hyperythra rara (Salomonsen, 1977)
– Mantalingajan Mts, in S Palawan (W Philippines).
Ficedula hyperythra nigrorum (Whitehead, 1897)
– WC Philippines (Panay, Negros).
Ficedula hyperythra malindangensis (Rand & Rabor, 1957)
– Mt Malindang, in NW Mindanao (S Philippines).
Ficedula hyperythra daggayana (Meyer de Schauensee & duPont, 1962)
– NC Mindanao (Misamis Oriental province).
Ficedula hyperythra montigena (Mearns, 1905)
– Mt Kitanglad, Mt McKinley and Mt Apo, in C Mindanao.
Ficedula hyperythra matutumensis (Kennedy, 1987)
– Mt Busa and Mt Matutum, in S Mindanao.
Ficedula hyperythra annalisa (Stresemann, 1931)
– N Sulawesi.
Ficedula hyperythra jugosae (Riley, 1921)
– C, SE & S Sulawesi, including Sula Is (Taliabu).
Ficedula hyperythra pallidipectus (E. J. O. Hartert, 1903)
– Bacan (off SW Halmahera), in Moluccas.
Ficedula hyperythra alifura (Stresemann, 1912)
– Buru (S Moluccas).
Ficedula hyperythra negroides (Stresemann, 1914)
– Seram (S Moluccas).
Ficedula hyperythra clarae (Mayr, 1944)
– Timor.
Ficedula hyperythra audacis (E. J. O. Hartert, 1906)
– Babar Is (E of Timor).