Mark Bruce
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Lesser Shortwing actually. Brachypteryx leucophrys, also called Mrs La Touche's Shortwing or Baihou duanchidong in Mandarin.Tanny said:I could not find any reference to the "Lesser Shotwing"
Here's a link to a photo in the BF database
http://www.birdforum.net/bird_view.php?bid=4619
The Taiwan race of Hwamei was split from the mainland species and given full endemic species status in August and is now called Taiwan Hwamei or Taiwan Melodious Laughingthrush Garrulax taewanus(ref: Ibis 2006, 148, pg 698-706).
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