Rufous-breasted accentor

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.

Rufous-breasted accentor
From Lungthu (~11,000 ft) in Sikkim, India.

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Prunellidae
Genus: Prunella
Species:
P. strophiata
Binomial name
Prunella strophiata
(Blyth, 1843)
Eggs of Prunella strophiata MHNT
Individual in Zuluk Sikkim

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.[2] The specific epithet strophiatus/strophiata is from Latin strophium "breast-band".[3] The rufous-breasted accentor is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816.[4]

Two subspecies are recognised:[5]

  • 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

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Prunella strophiata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Blyth, Edward (1843). "Mr. Blyth's monthly report for the December meeting 1842". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 12 Part 2 (143): 925-1011 [959].
  3. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  4. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Elementaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 43.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 March 2019.


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