Whiskered Yuhina - Birdpoints

Whiskered Yuhina

Yuhina flavicollis

15th Sep, 2007

Possible regional races (polytypic)
	-Y. f. albicollis
	-Y. f. flavicollis
	-Y. f. rouxi

Yuhina flavicollis albicollis

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¹Upper mandible brownish black; lower mandible fleshy brown, greyish horny at base; irides light to dark brown, sometimes reddish brown; feet fleshly buff; claws pale brown horny. The sexes hardly differ in colour. The upper surface is tinged with olive; the moustache is darker in the breeding season (being then nearly black) than in winter; the lores are dark brown; and there is a conspicuous ring of white feathers round the eye; the flanks are pale olivaceous streaked with white.

The Yellow-naped Flowerpecker is common, and a permanent resident on the hills round the valley of Nepal; it is also tolerably common in the upper part of the Chitlang Valley in winter. It is found at an elevation of not more that 5,000 feet in winter, but in summer it is only met with at elevations from 7,000 to 8,000 feet; it does not occur in the central part of the Great Valley.

1. The C Nepal race would be Y. f. flavicollis - ED

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