- Brown-headed Jewel-babbler
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Brown-headed Jewel-babbler Conservation status NEScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Cinclosomatidae Genus: Ptilorrhoa Species: P. geislerorum Binomial name Ptilorrhoa geislerorum
(A.B. Meyer, 1892)The Brown-headed Jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa geislerorum), also known as the Dimorphic Jewel-babbler or Brown-capped Jewel-babbler, is a species of jewel-babbler in the family Cinclosomatidae. The species was once considered to be conspecific with the Blue Jewel-babbler, but is separated altitudinally from that species and varies in behaviour, calls and female plumage.
References
- Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 9788496553422
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