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A new species of Phylloscopus warbler from Sichuan Province, China
Author(s) -
ALSTRÖM PER,
OLSSON URBAN
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
ibis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1474-919X
pISSN - 0019-1019
DOI - 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1995.tb03254.x
Subject(s) - warbler , china , sympatric speciation , geography , biology , ecology , habitat , archaeology
A new species of leaf warbler (Sylviidae: Phylloscopus ) is described from the mountain Emei Shan, Sichuan Province, China. Morphologically it is extremely similar to, yet significantly different from, the sympatric Blyth's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus reguloides and White‐tailed Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus davisoni. Songs and calls are both very different from P. reguloides and P. davisoni, and playback tests confirmed the specific status of the new species.