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Remiz pendulinus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Eurasian Penduline-Tit (Remiz pendulinus) and Black-headed Penduline-Tit (Remiz macronyx) following Harrap and Quinn (1996) who recognises four species of Remiz: pendulinus, macronyx, coronatus and consobrinus. Eck and Martens (2006) lump macronyx with pendulinus and consobrinus with coronatus citing hybridisation between macronyx and pendulinus on the north and southwest shores of the Caspian Sea as a factor, but they fail to adequately justify their treatment of White-crowned Penduline-Tit (Remiz coronatus) and Chinese Penduline-Tit (Remiz consobrinus) as conspecific. Examination of specimens and literature by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group suggests that the four taxa are best treated as separate species owing to consistent morphological and ecological differences between them with habitat partitioning occurring where two taxa occur in sympatry. This arrangement best fits the geographic distribution of these taxa.

Forms a species group with Eurasian Penduline-Tit (Remiz pendulinus), Black-headed Penduline-Tit (Remiz macronyx) and White-crowned Penduline-Tit (Remiz coronatus). All often considered conspecific. Probably most closely related to Eurasian Penduline-Tit (Remiz pendulinus), but sometimes considered conspecific with White-crowned Penduline-Tit (Remiz coronatus) (and the other two then united as a separate species). Treatment as four distinct species based mainly on structural, as well as plumage and habitat, differences.


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