Barwing

Taxobox
name = Barwing

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image_caption = Formosan Barwing
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Timaliidae
genus = "Actinodura"
genus_authority = Gould, 1836
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =See text

The Barwings are the genus "Actinodura" of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family. They are found in the hills of southern Asia from India east to China and Taiwan.

pecies in taxonomic order

* Rusty-fronted Barwing ("Actinodura egertoni")
* Spectacled Barwing ("Actinodura ramsayi")
* Black-crowned Barwing ("Actinodura sodangorum")
* Hoary-throated Barwing ("Actinodura nipalensis")
* Streak-throated Barwing ("Actinodura waldeni")
* Streaked Barwing ("Actinodura souliei")
* Formosan Barwing ("Actinodura morrisoniana")

References

* Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) Pp. 70 - 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. "Handbook of the Birds of the World", Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.