Gray-chinned Minivet
The grey-chinned minivet (''Pericrocotus solaris'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found from the Himalayas to China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is forests about in elevation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as a least-concern species. Taxonomy This species was described from Darjeeling by Edward Blyth in 1846. The IOC World Bird List recognises eight subspecies: ''Pericrocotus solaris solaris'' found in the Himalayas and northern and western Myanmar; ''P. s. rubrolimbatus'' in eastern Myanmar and northern Thailand; ''P. s. montpellieri'' in southern China; ''P. s. griseogularis'' in southeastern China, Taiwan, northeastern Laos and northern Vietnam; ''P. s. deignani'' in southern Laos and central Vietnam; ''P. s. nassovicus'' in eastern Thailand and southern Cambodia; ''P. s. montanus'' in western Malaysia and Sumatra; and ''P. s. cinereigula'' in Borneo. The ''Handbook of the Birds of the Wor ...
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Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta. Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 he travelled to India to become the curator of the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. He set about updating the museum's catalogues, publishing a ''Catalogue of the Birds of the Asiatic Society'' in 1849. He was prevented from doing much fieldwork himself, but received and described bird specimens from A.O. Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe and others. He remained as curator until 1862, when ill-health forced his return to England. His ''Natural History of the Cranes'' was published posthumously in 1881. Avian species bearing his name include Blyth's hornbill, Blyth's leaf warbler, Blyth's hawk-eagle, Blyth's olive bulbul, Blyth's parakeet, Blyth's frogmouth, Blyth's reed warbler, Blyth's rosefinch, Blyth's shrike-babbl ...
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