| White-browed Bush Chat | |
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| In the Kutch region of India | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Saxicola |
| Species: | S. macrorhynchus |
| Binomial name | |
| Saxicola macrorhynchus Stoliczka, 1872 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Saxicola macrorhyncha |
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The White-browed Bush Chat (Saxicola macrorhynchus),[note 1] also known as Stoliczka's Bushchat, is an Old World flycatcher in the genus Saxicola. The alternate name is after the discoverer, geologist and explorer Ferdinand Stoliczka.
This desert specialist has a small, declining population because of agricultural intensification and encroachment, which qualifies it as vulnerable.
The White-browed Bush Chat is found in an area of semi- arid country in north-western India and eastern Pakistan. It has apparently strayed as far east as the Bharatpur area of Rajasthan and as far south as Goa and Pune,[2] with two simultaneous historical records from southern Afghanistan.