Hume's bush warbler

Hume's bush warbler
at Walong
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cettiidae
Genus: Horornis
Species: H. brunnescens
Binomial name
Horornis brunnescens
(Hume, 1872)
Synonyms

Cettia brunnescens

Hume's bush warbler (Horornis brunnescens) is a species of bush warbler (family Cettiidae). It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

It is found in India.

The name commemorates the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume who worked in India.[1]

References

  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 173–174.


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