Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Asian Brown Flycatcher

Wednesday 29 October 2014

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

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Muscicapa dauurica

北灰鹟 (běi huī wēng)

Malay : Sambar-Kusam Biasa

Japanese : コサメビタキ (ko-same-bitaki) /

ミナミコサメビタキ (minami ko-same-bitaki)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 小鮫鶲 / 南小鮫鶲

Size : 12–14 cm; 7·8–16 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Muscicapa dauurica dauurica (Pallas, 1811)
– breeds C Siberia and SE Russia (E to Amurland and Ussuriland), N Mongolia, NE China, N Korea, Sakhalin I, S Kuril Is and Japan; non-Breeding S China (Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan), SE Asia (to W Myanmar), Philippines and Greater Sundas.
Muscicapa dauurica poonensis (Sykes, 1832)
– breeds NW Pakistan (Murree Hills) and Himalayan foothills E to E Nepal, also C & S India (Vindhya and Satpura Ranges, Western Ghats, possibly also Eastern Ghats); non-breeding peninsular India (principally S of Vindhya Range), Sri Lanka Andaman Is and Nicobar Is.
Muscicapa dauurica williamsoni (Deignan, 1957)
– breeds SE Myanmar and NW & S Thailand S to NE Peninsular Malaysia; non-breeding also S to Singapore and Sumatra, and W Borneo.
Muscicapa dauurica siamensis (Gyldenstolpe, 1916)
– S Myanmar (N Tenasserim), NW Thailand and S Vietnam (S Annam, Cochinchina).
Muscicapa dauurica umbrosa (Wells, 1982)
– NE Borneo.