The crested finchbill (''Spizixos canifrons'') is a species of songbird in the

bulbul The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical As ...

family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in south-eastern Asia from China and India to Indochina.

Taxonomy

The crested finchbill was formally described in 1845 by the English zoologist

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 ...

under the

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''Spizixos canifrons''. He specified the

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Cherrapunji Cherrapunji () or Sohra is a subdivisional town (Proposed District) East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya. It is the traditional capital of ka ''hima'' Sohra (Khasi tribal kingdom). Sohra has often been credited as being t ...

in the Indian state of Meghalaya of northeast India. The specific epithet combines the Latin ''canus'' meaning "grey" with ''frons'' meaning "forehead".

Subspecies

Two

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are recognized: * ''S. c. canifrons''

Blyth Blyth may refer to: People * Blyth (surname) * Blythe (given name) Places Australia * Blyth, South Australia, a small town Canada * Blyth, Ontario, a village United Kingdom * Blyth, Northumberland, a town ** Blyth Valley (UK Parliament ...

, 1845 – Found in north-eastern India and western Myanmar * ''S. c. ingrami'' Bangs & Phillips, JC, 1914 – Found in eastern Myanmar, southern China and northern Indochina

References

External links

Image and Classification at Animal Diversity Web
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