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Male
Photo by Robert L Jarvis
Jungle Lodge, North India, February 2006

Monticola rufiventris

[edit] Identification

• Dark greyish-blue upperparts, head, throat, nape and tail
• Chestnut underparts

[edit] Distribution

Asia: found in south-western China, south-eastern Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas, Bangladesh and Bhutan
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, northern Laos, northern Vietnam, Thailand.

Female
Photo by kaydeegee2010
Vinayak, Nainital,Uttarakhand, India, April 2012

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Temperate forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links