Pale-chinned Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys)

Other Names (World)
Pale-chinned Flycatcher, Pale-chinned Blue-Flycatcher, Brooks's Flycatcher, Brooks's Blue-Flycatcher, Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
14 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
Brooks, 1879

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, moist shrubland.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Myanmar, Nepal.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (35)...)

Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) [XC116799]
by Mike Nelson from Tea plantation, Golaghat, Assam, India (song)

Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) [XC79136]
by Mike Dooher from Kaziranga National Park, Assam near park entrance, India (call, song)

Subspecies
Taxonomic status of this species and Tickell's Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) uncertain. The two hybridize extensively in eastern India (Eastern Ghats), and subspecies vernayi recently considered to be the product of such interbreeding. A detailed review of both forms required.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

poliogenys Brooks, 1879 - Central Himalayas east to north-eastern India (western and southern Assam, Meghalaya), eastern Bangladesh and south-western Myanmar.
cachariensis (Madar�sz, 1884) - Eastern Himalayas in southern China (south-eastern Xizang), north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, eastern and south-eastern Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram) and north-western Myanmar.
laurentei (La Touche, 1921) - Southern China (western and south-eastern Yunnan).
vernayi Whistler, 1931 - Eastern Ghats, in eastern India.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Pale-chinned Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) - 10 files

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