Mountain tailorbird

Mountain tailorbird

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cettiidae
Genus:	Phyllergates (but see text)
Species:	P. cuculatus
Binomial name
*Phyllergates cuculatus* Temminck, 1836
Synonyms
Orthotomus cuculatus

The mountain tailorbird (Phyllergates cuculatus) is a songbird species formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage with the other tailorbirds, but it actually seems to be one of the "pseudo-tailorbirds" which should be considered a genus Phyllergates in the family Cettiidae.

A close-up image from Arunachal Pradesh, India

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References

Genera and members of the Cettiidae family

Genera	Pholidornis – tit hylia (formerly in Remizidae) Hylia – green hylia (tentatively placed here) Abroscopus – Abroscopus warblers (3 species) Urosphena – stubtails (5 species) Tesia – tesias (5 species) Horornis – (14 species) Cettia – typical bush warblers (4 species) Tickellia – broad-billed warbler Phyllergates - (2 species) Scotocerca - streaked scrub warbler

Abroscopus	Black-faced warbler Rufous-faced warbler Yellow-bellied warbler

Cettia	Bush-warbler Cetti's warbler Chestnut-crowned bush warbler Chestnut-headed tesia Grey-sided bush warbler

Horornis	Aberrant bush warbler Bougainville bush warbler Brown-flanked bush warbler Fiji bush warbler Hume's bush warbler Japanese bush warbler Manchurian bush warbler Palau bush warbler Philippine bush warbler Shade bush warbler Sunda bush warbler Tanimbar bush warbler Yellow-bellied bush warbler

Phyllergates	Mountain tailorbird Rufous-headed tailorbird

Urosphena	Asian stubtail Bornean stubtail Neumann's warbler Pale-footed bush warbler Timor stubtail