Gray-sided Bush Warbler Cettia brunnifrons Scientific name definitions
Text last updated July 6, 2018
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Catalan | rossinyol bord de capell |
Chinese (SIM) | 棕顶树莺 |
Dutch | Roodkopstruikzanger |
English | Gray-sided Bush Warbler |
English (United States) | Gray-sided Bush Warbler |
French | Bouscarle à couronne brune |
French (France) | Bouscarle à couronne brune |
German | Himalajaseidensänger |
Japanese | チャガシラコウグイス |
Norwegian | gråsidesanger |
Polish | wierzbówka himalajska |
Russian | Рыжеголовая широкохвостка |
Serbian | Svilorepi cvrčić sivih bokova |
Slovak | cetia horská |
Spanish | Cetia Capirotado |
Spanish (Spain) | Cetia capirotado |
Swedish | gråsidig cettia |
Turkish | Gri Böğürlü Kamışbülbülü |
Ukrainian | Широкохвістка рудоголова |
Cettia brunnifrons (Hodgson, 1845)
Definitions
- CETTIA
- brunnifrons
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Field Identification
10–11 cm; male 8–9 g, female 6–9 g. Small, slender-looking bush-warbler with small bill, long pale supercilium well defined in front of eye. Nominate race has whitish or whitish-buff supercilium continuing to side of nape, long blackish eyestripe, pale grey-brown cheek and ear-coverts; warm chestnut crown, plain brown upperparts, wings warmer brown than back; chin and throat whitish, becoming pale greyish on breast side and flanks, with rear flanks and undertail-coverts brownish-olive; iris dark; upper mandible dark horn, lower mandible pale yellowish to bright yellow, tip sometimes dark; legs pale brown to pinkish-grey, variable, sometimes a little darker and slightly purplish. Differs from C. major in smaller size, slender appearance, smaller bill, well-defined whitish (not rufous-buff) supercilium in front of eye, greyer (less white) underparts. Sexes alike. Juvenile has uniform rufous-brown upperparts, lacks chestnut crown, has supercilium buffish-brown, underparts drab brownish-olive, yellowish-olive on belly. Race whistleri has paler chestnut on head, upperparts and flight-feathers edges and paler undertail-coverts than nominate; <em>umbratica</em> is darker chestnut or rufous-brown on upperparts than nominate.
Systematics History
Editor's Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections. Please bear with us while this update takes place.
See C. major. Race whistleri intergrades with nominate in N India (Uttarakhand); variation throughout range may be clinal, and species sometimes treated as monotypic. Birds from NE India described as race muroides, but appear inseparable from umbratica. Three subspecies recognized.Subspecies
Cettia brunnifrons whistleri Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Cettia brunnifrons whistleri (Ticehurst, 1923)
Definitions
- CETTIA
- brunnifrons
- whistleri
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Cettia brunnifrons brunnifrons Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Himalayas from N India (Uttarakhand) E to Bhutan and SE Tibet.
Cettia brunnifrons brunnifrons (Hodgson, 1845)
Definitions
- CETTIA
- brunnifrons
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Cettia brunnifrons umbratica Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Cettia brunnifrons umbratica (Baker, 1924)
Definitions
- CETTIA
- brunnifrons
- umbratica
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Distribution
Editor's Note: Additional distribution information for this taxon can be found in the 'Subspecies' article above. In the future we will develop a range-wide distribution article.
Habitat
Movement
Altitudinal migrant; post-breeding descent to lower elevations. Recently recorded in NE Bangladesh in winter (Feb 2012) (1).
Diet and Foraging
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Song , from top of bush or rock, mid-Apr to early Aug and again in Sept–Oct, a loud, wheezing and repetitive “ti si’si’si’sizu” or slightly prolonged “tseep-tseep-tweecha-tweep”, frequently accompanied at start and end by nasal buzzing “bzeeuu” notes. Call a bunting-like “pseek”, and high-pitched, metallic “tiss”, “tizz” or “tiss-wi” alarm.