Himalayan Bluetail (Tarsiger rufilatus) [XC461751]
by Peter Boesman from Munsyari, Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India (call)
Himalayan Bluetail (Tarsiger rufilatus) [XC266480]
by Mike Nelson from Mengbi Shan, Maerkang-Balangshan highway, Sichuan, China (call, song)
Subspecies
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (Tarsiger cyanurus).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
pallidior (Baker, ECS, 1924) - Western Himalayas.
rufilatus (Hodgson, 1845) - North-western, central and eastern Himalayas east to central and southern China, probably also northern Myanmar. Non-breeding also Indochina.