Yellow-throated laughingthrush | |
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Illustration by John Gould and William Matthew Hart. The crown and nape should actually be light grey. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Leiothrichidae |
Genus: | Pterorhinus |
Species: | P. galbanus
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Binomial name | |
Pterorhinus galbanus (
Godwin-Austen, 1874)
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Synonyms | |
Ianthocincla galbana |
The yellow-throated laughingthrush (Pterorhinus galbanus) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in grassy areas with bushes and trees, scrub and forest in the Patkai mountain range. [1] Until recently, it included the blue-crowned laughingthrush as a subspecies, but unlike that species the crown of the yellow-throated laughingthrush is pale grey (not bluish).
The yellow-throated laughingthrush was formerly placed in the genus Garrulax but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus. [2] [3]