Chestnut-bellied tit explained

The chestnut-bellied tit (Sittiparus castaneoventris) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae that is endemic to Taiwan.

The chestnut-bellied tit was first described by the English ornithologist John Gould in 1863 and given the binomial name Parus castaneoventris.^[1] It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the varied tit but was promoted to species status after the publication of a phylogenetic study in 2014.^{[2] [3]}

The species differs from the varied tit in having underparts of a deep chestnut colour.^[4]

External links

• Birding In Taiwan: Endemic subspecies of Taiwan birds - first impressions

Notes and References

1. Gould . John . John Gould . 1863 . Descriptions of sixteen new species of birds from the island of Formosa, collected by Robert Swinhoe, Esq., her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Formosa . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 3 . 280 . The title page gives the year as 1862.
2. McKay . B.D. . Mays Jnr . H.L. . Tao . C.-T. . Wan . D. . Higuchi . H. . Nishium . I. . 2014 . Incorporating color into integrative taxonomy: analysis of the Varied Tit (Sittiparus varius) complex in East Asia . Systems Biology . 63 . 4 . 505–517 . 10.1093/sysbio/syu016 . 24603127 .
3. Web site: Gill . Frank . Donsker . David . Waxwings and their allies, tits & penduline tits . World Bird List Version 6.1 . International Ornithologists' Union. 15 February 2016 .
4. Web site: Gosler. A. . Clement . P. . 2017 . Varied Tit (Sittiparus varius) . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 2 September 2017.