Pericrocotus brevirostris

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Pericrocotus brevirostris (Vigors) • Pericrocotus brevirostris (Vigors, 1831)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pericrocotus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. brevirostris (Short-Billed Minivet) · P. brevirostris brevirostris (Short-Billed Minivet) · P. cantonensis (Brown-Rumped Minivet) · P. cinnamomeus (Small Minivet) · P. cinnamomeus cinnamomeus (Small Minivet) · P. divaricatus (Ashy Minivet) · P. divaricatus divaricatus (Ashy Minivet) · P. erythropygius (White-Bellied Minivet) · P. erythropygius erythropygius (White-Bellied Minivet) · P. ethologus (Long-Tailed Minivet) · P. ethologus ethologus (Long-Tailed Minivet) · P. flammeus (Scarlet Minivet) · P. flammeus flammeus (Scarlet Minivet) · (Fiery Minivet) · P. igneus igneus (Fiery Minivet) · P. lansbergei (Little Minivet) · P. miniatus (Sunda Minivet) · P. roseus (Rosy Minivet) · P. roseus roseus (Rosy Minivet) · P. solaris (Yellow-Throated Minivet) · P. tegimae (Ryukyu Minivet)

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Further Reading

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• A guide to the birds of Nepal Christopher Helm (Publishers) Ltd. url p. 227.
• A key to the birds of the lower Yangtse Valley, with popular descriptions of the species commonly seen. By N. Gist Gee. .. and Lacy I. Moffett. Shanghai, Shanghai Mercury Limited, Print., 1917. url .
• A manual of palæarctic birds, by H. E. Dresser. London, The author, 1902-03. url .
• A revised catalogue of the birds of China and its islands, with descriptions of new species, references to former notes, and occasional remarks. By Robert Swinhoe. London, 1871 url p. 43.
• Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista 1 1878 London, B. Quaritch, 1878. url p. 648.
• Aves / 1891 London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1891. url p. 103, p. xi.
• Bird notes. Brighton: Foreign Bird Club: 1902-1925. url p. 400.
• Birds from Nepal [by] Austin L. Rand [and] Robert L. Fleming. 41 1957 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 101, p. 213.
• Birds of Asia / by John Gould. II 1850-83 London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1850-1883. url p. .
• Birds of Darjeeling and India, by L.J. Mackintosh. Calcutta, Printed by J.N. Banerjee & son, 1915. url .
• Birds of the Indian Hills. London, John Lane, 1915. url , , .
• Birds of the Indian hills, by Douglas Dewar. A companion volume to the bird volumes of "The fauna of British India." London, John Lane company; [etc., etc.]1915. url p. 114, p. 262, p. 58.
• Birds. By Eugene W. Oates. London: Taylor and Francis; [etc., etc.], 1889-98. url p. 478, p. 483, p. 484.
• Birds. London, Taylor and Francis, 1889-1898. url , .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 234, p. 269, p. 275, p. 565, p. 569, p. 574, p. 586, p. 599, p. 602.
• Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. London: The Club, 1893- url , p. 119, p. 167, p. 183.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 282, p. 282.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 471, p. 79, p. 80.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 297.
• Catalogue of the birds in the Museum Asiatic Society / by Edward Blyth. Published by order of the society. Calcutta: J. Thomas, 1849. url p. 386.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 297.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 214.
• Garden and aviary birds of India, by Frank Finn. .. With seven full-page illustrations. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and Co., 1906. url p. 38, p. 38.
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• Handbook to the birds of the Bombay presidency, by Lieut. H. Edwin Barnes. .. Calcutta, The Calcutta Central Press, 1885. url , , p. 152, p. 152.
• Himalayan and Kashmiri birds, being a key to the birds commonly seen in summer in the Himalayas & Kashmir, by Douglas Dewar; a companion to the bird volumes of the Fauna of British India. London, John Lane[1923] url p. 123.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4218
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561913
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2495134
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561913
• IUCN ID: 231228
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 140278

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