White-browed Bush-Robin Tarsiger indicus Scientific name definitions

Sylvia indica Vieillot, 1817, Nouveau Dictionnaire D'histoire Naturelle, Appliquée Aux Arts, à L'agriculture, à L'économie Rurale et Domestique, à la Médicine, etc. 11:267 (6 Vieillot, L. J. P. (1817) Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle. Tome XI. Deterville, Paris. Close ). Type locality listed as India (7 Ripley, S. D. (1964) Subfamily Turdinae, thrushes. In Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 10 (E. Mayr and R. A. Paynter Jr., Editors), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, USA. pp. 13–227. Close ), but later restricted to Darjeeling (8 Baker, E. C. S. (1921). Hand-list of the birds of India. Part 3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 692–744 Close ).

Central and eastern Himalayas, from northern India (Uttarakhand) east to Arunachal Pradesh and southeastern Tibet.

Described under Field Identification.

Tarsiger indicus yunnanensis Rothschild, 1922, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 43:10. Type locality given as "Lichiang Range, 10,000 ft." (9 Rothschild, W. (1922). Description of new species and subspecies of Yunnan birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 43:9-12 Close ).

Southern China (northeastern Sichuan south to northern Yunnan), northern Myanmar, and northern Vietnam (western Tonkin).

Subspecies yunnanensis has paler throat, yellower underparts, and greener vent.