Rufous-breasted accentor facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Rufous-breasted accentor |
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| From Lungthu (~11,000 ft) in Sikkim, India. | |
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Prunella
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strophiata
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The rufous-breasted accentor (Prunella strophiata) is passerine bird in the family Prunellidae, endemic to the Himalayas, descending in the winter to lower-to-middle altitudes. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Its natural habitat is temperate forest.
Taxonomy
The rufous-breasted accentor was described by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843 from a specimen collected in Nepal. He coined the binomial name Accentor strophiatus. The specific epithet strophiatus/strophiata is from Latin strophium "breast-band". The rufous-breasted accentor is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816.
Two subspecies are recognised:
- P. s. jerdoni (Brooks, WE, 1872) – east Afghanistan and west Himalayas
- P. s. strophiata (Blyth, 1843) – central and east Himalayas to central China and north Myanmar
P. s. strophiata at Helambu, Nepal.
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