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White-gorgeted Flycatcher Anthipes monileger Scientific name definitions

Peter Clement
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2006

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Field Identification

11·5–13 cm; 11 g. Small brown forest flycatcher with short tail, large head and brilliant white throat. Nominate race has head and upperparts mostly dull olive-brown, face slightly greyer, with pale lores, poorly defined buffish supercilium fading behind eye, slightly warmer brown tail; chin and throat pure white with narrow black border, underparts dull olive, washed buffish on flanks, whiter centre of belly; iris dark; bill dark horn or blackish; legs pink or pinkish-brown. Sexes alike. Juvenile lacks white chin and throat, has brown upperparts heavily streaked buffish, buff tips of greater coverts (forming indistinct wingbar), buffish underparts streaked with brown. Race leucops has paler grey face and whiter supercilium than nominate; gularis has smaller bill, whitish-buff eyebrow to over eye, bright orange-rufous rump, uppertail-coverts and side of tail base, bright orange-rufous edges of flight-feathers, broader black border of white throat, underparts paler, flank feathers tipped buffish.

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.

Has been suggested that race submoniliger of A. solitaris may belong with present species. Three subspecies recognized.

Subspecies

SUBSPECIES

Anthipes monileger monileger Scientific name definitions

Anthipes monileger monileger
A. m. monileger

Distribution

C and E Himalayas from C Nepal E to Bhutan and NE India (Arunachal Pradesh), possibly also SE Tibet.

SUBSPECIES

Anthipes monileger leucops Scientific name definitions

Anthipes monileger leucops
A. m. leucops

Distribution

NE India (S and E Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland), Myanmar (except SW), S China (SW Yunnan), NW Thailand, Laos and N and C Vietnam (W and E Tonkin, N and C Annam).
SUBSPECIES

Anthipes monileger gularis Scientific name definitions

Distribution

SW Myanmar (Arakan).

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

Moist broadleaf forest, also lush vegetation along streams, scrubby ravines, dense bushes and bamboo; breeds at 915–3000 m in Nepal, usually to 2000 m in NE India and to 1900 m in SE Asia. In non-breeding season found in similar habitat at lower altitudes, down to 600 m; at c. 700m in Vietnam (C Annam).

Movement

Altitudinal migrant, making post-breeding descent to lower levels; race leucops vagrant in S China (SW Yunnan).

Diet and Foraging

Food not well known, but includes small invertebrates. Usually solitary or in pairs; shy, skulking and secretive, keeping mostly to dense cover. Forages in dense undergrowth or in lower levels of forest trees; occasionally makes short aerial pursuit of insects. Flicks and spreads tail when perched.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Song a long series of thin, high-pitched whistled notes in phrases, with alternating wispy, scratchy and musical notes. Calls include a twanging or buzzing “grzzt-grzzt-grzzt”, a short plaintive or slurred whistle, a scolding rattle, a rapid, dry “djuh” and a metallic “dik”.

Breeding

Season from end Apr to Jun in NE India, and Mar–Aug in SE Asia. Nest a ball of grass and leaves, placed in undergrowth on bank or low down in bush. Clutch 4 eggs; no information on incubation and nestling periods.

Conservation Status

Conservation status on Birdlife LC Least Concern
Not globally threatened. Generally uncommon. Scarce or rare in Hima­layas and NE India; uncommon or locally fairly common in Myanmar and E to Laos and N & C Vietnam.
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Recommended Citation

Clement, P. (2020). White-gorgeted Flycatcher (Anthipes monileger), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.whgfly1.01
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