Brown-backed Solitaire (Myadestes occidentalis) [XC500483]
by Richard E. Webster from Reserva Ecol\u00f3gica Sierra de San Juan--La Noria, Nayarit, Mexico (song)
Brown-backed Solitaire (Myadestes occidentalis) [XC813962]
by Manuel Grosselet from San Pablo Etla, San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico (call)
Subspecies
Scientific name formerly Myadestes obscurus, but that became preoccupied when Phaeornis merged with present genus.
Proposed subspecies cinereus (from north-western Mexico) synonymized with nominate.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
occidentalis Stejneger, 1882 - Western and east-central Mexico.
insularis Stejneger, 1882 - Tres Marias Is, off western Mexico.
oberholseri Dickey & van Rossem, 1925 - Central and southern Mexico south to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.