Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

Taxobox
name = Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

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status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
image_caption = Adult male
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Muscicapidae
genus = "Ficedula"
species = "F. zanthopygia"
binomial = "Ficedula zanthopygia"
binomial_authority = (Hay, 1845)

The Yellow-rumped Flycatcher ("Ficedula zanthopygia") is a species of flycatcher found in Asia. A distinctive species with almost no lookalike other than the Narcissus flycatcher. Hartert (1907) treated this as a part of the "narcissina" group.

Included in this species complex was the species called Elise's Flycatcher. Weigold (1922) found this species to be distinct and found the "elisae" and "zanthopygia" species breeding in the same area in oak forest near Peking.

The breeding area of the species is in Eastern Asia. North Korea and China. From 1992, the species has been seen to winter in Central and Southern India.

References

* Töpfer, T. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 60. Remarks on the systematic position of "Ficedula elisae" (Weigold, 1922). Zool. Med. Leiden 80-5 (12), 21.xii.2006. 203-212.— ISSN 0024-0672. [http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41836]
* Weigold, H., 1922a. "Muscicapa elisae" n. sp.— Falco 18(1): 1-2.
* Haribal, M. 1992. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher "M. zanthopygia": a new addition to the avifauna of the Indian subcontinent. JBNHS 88(3):456-458
* Hartert, E., 1907. Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna. 1 (4) 385-512.— Berlin.