The chestnut-headed tesia (''Cettia castaneocoronata'') is a small

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songbird A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds ( Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin ''oscen'', "songbird". The Passeriformes contains 50 ...

formerly of the "

Old World warbler Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxonomic confusion. Two families were split out initially, the ci ...

" family but nowadays placed in the bush warbler

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Cettiidae Cettiidae is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler " wastebin" assemblage. It contains the typical bush warblers ('' Cettia'') and their relatives. As a common name, ce ...

Location and habitat

Chestnut-headed Tesia Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve West Sikkim India 16

It is found in

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, China,

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, Laos,

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, and

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. Its natural

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s are

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and subtropical or tropical moist

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Taxonomy

The chestnut-headed tesia was formally described by the English army officer and zoologist Edward Burton in 1836 under the

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''Sylvia castaneocoronata''. The specific epithet combines the Latin ''castaneus'' meaning "chestnut-coloured" and ''coronatus'' meaning "crowned". Formerly placed in the genus ''

Tesia The tesias are a genus, ''Tesia'', of Old World warbler. Though once included in the large family Sylviidae, more recent research placed it within a new family, Cettiidae. The four species inhabit undergrowth of montane forest in South and South ...

'', a

molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...

study published in 2011 found that the chestnut-headed tesia was embedded in a clade containing members of the genus ''

Cettia ''Cettia'' is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers") which make up the core of the newly recognized family Cettiidae. They were formerly placed in the Sylviidae, which at that time was a wastebin taxon for the warbler-like Sylvioid ...

''. Three subspecies are recognised: * ''C. c. castaneocoronata'' (Burton, 1836) – Himalayas and northeast India to south China and north Laos * ''C. c. abadiei'' ( Delacour & Jabouille, 1930) – north Vietnam * ''C. c. ripleyi'' ( Deignan, 1951) –

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(south China)

References

External links

Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the chestnut-headed tesia
chestnut-headed tesia Birds of North India Birds of Nepal Birds of Eastern Himalaya Birds of Central China Birds of Yunnan Birds of Myanmar chestnut-headed tesia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cettiidae-stub