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271:. The tail is black. The outer tail feathers are olive green and tipped in yellow with the inner webs black. The central tail feathers are olive green with a black tip. The underside is whitish buff as in the male but washed with grey from the middle of the abdomen to the vent.
470:. The nest is a hammock, like that of an oriole, built in a fork towards the tip of a branch high in the canopy of a tree. The clutch varies from two to four eggs which are pinkish white and speckled in purple brown, the spots merging to form a ring towards the broad end.
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and possibly further east. The eastern limits of the species are unclear but some evidence based on song differences suggests that they might occur as far east as
Arunachal Pradesh. This might be negated if it is found that song variations exist within the eastern form
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Himalayan shrike-babblers are strictly arboreal and are seen foraging for insects mainly in the upper canopy. During the breeding season they are found in pairs but at other times several birds may be found, often in
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Pteruthius (Aves: Corvida) shrike-babblers: a comparison between the Biological and Phylogenetic Species Concepts".
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after elevating Koelz's name for the eastern
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in 1809 for a different species and he therefore suggested that the western
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by Ernst Mayr and R.A. Paynter in their taxonomic treatment in 1964. This was followed by most regional works such as the
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by Salim Ali and Dillon S. Ripley. In 2008, a study of the
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was "preoccupied" or clashing with an earlier name used by
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described a new subspecies from Nagaland under the name of
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of the New World, leading to their addition in the family
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259:uniformly orange-chestnut, unlike dark chestnut in
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339:. In 1960, Biswamoy Biswas noted that the name
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204:Pteruthius aeralatus ripleyi
167:Pteruthius aeralatus ripleyi
602:Baker, E.C. Stuart (1922).
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298:white-browed shrike-babbler
244:white-browed shrike-babbler
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313:Nicholas Aylward Vigors
240:cryptic species complex
896:Birds of the Himalayas
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