Alcippe (bird)
Alcippe is a genus of passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. It previously included many of the fulvettas, but recent taxonomy has been dividing the group.
| Alcippe | |
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| Mountain fulvetta (Alcippe peracensis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pellorneidae |
| Genus: | Alcippe Blyth, 1844 |
| Species | |
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The genus includes the following 17 species:[1]
- Golden-fronted fulvetta (Alcippe variegaticeps)
- Yellow-throated fulvetta (Alcippe cinerea)
- Rufous-winged fulvetta (Alcippe castaneceps)
- Black-crowned fulvetta (Alcippe klossi)
- Rufous-throated fulvetta (Alcippe rufogularis)
- Rusty-capped fulvetta (Alcippe dubia)
- Dusky fulvetta (Alcippe brunnea)
- Brown fulvetta (Alcippe brunneicauda)
- Brown-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe poioicephala)
- Javan fulvetta (Alcippe pyrrhoptera)
- Mountain fulvetta (Alcippe peracensis)
- Black-browed fulvetta (Alcippe grotei)
- Grey-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia)
- David's fulvetta (Alcippe davidi)
- Yunnan fulvetta (Alcippe fratercula)
- Huet's fulvetta (Alcippe hueti)
- Nepal fulvetta (Alcippe nipalensis)
References
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2016). "Babblers & fulvettas". World Bird List Version 6.4. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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