Grey-hooded Fulvetta

Taxobox
name = Grey-hooded Fulvetta


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Timaliidae
genus = "Fulvetta"
species = "F. cinereiceps"
binomial = "Fulvetta cinereiceps"
binomial_authority = (Verreaux, 1870)
synonyms = "Alcippe cinereiceps"

The Grey-hooded Fulvetta ("Fulvetta cinereiceps") is a bird species in the family Sylviidae. Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus "Alcippe".

Formerly, "F. cinereiceps" was known as Streak-throated Fulvetta, the birds properly referred to with this name have been split off and are nowe usually treated as a distinct species, "F. manipurensis". Another former subspecies of "F. cinereiceps" that is nowadays usually considered distinct is the Taiwan Fulvetta ("F. formosana").

Its natural habitat are temperate forests. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

References

*|year=2004|id=52776|title=Alcippe cinereiceps|downloaded=25 July 2007
* (2007): Family Timaliidae (Babblers). "In:" aut|del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew & Christie, D.A. (eds.): "Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 12" (Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees): 70-291. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.