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Hume's Whitethroat

This painting of a Lesser Whitethroat shows a dark individual more similar to Hume's Whitethroat. The Lesser Whitethroat, Sylvia curruca, is a common and widespread Typical warbler which breeds in temperate Europe, except the southwest

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sylviidae
Genus:	Sylvia
Species:	S. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Least Concern ( LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The " Old World Warblers " family Sylviidae are a family of small Passerine Bird species the names sylviid warblers The typical warblers are small insectivorous Birds belonging to the genera Sylvia and Parisoma of the "Old World althaea

Binomial name

Sylvia althaea
Hume, 1878

Synonyms

Sylvia althaea althaea
Sylvia althaea monticola
Sylvia curruca althaea

Hume's Whitethroat, Sylvia althaea, is a species of typical warbler. Allan Octavian Hume ( June 6, 1829 - July 31, 1912) son of Joseph Hume was a Civil servant in British governed India In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. The typical warblers are small insectivorous Birds belonging to the genera Sylvia and Parisoma of the "Old World Until recently, it was considered conspecific with the Lesser Whitethroat; today these are seen as members of a superspecies which also includes the Small Whitethroat. Conspecificity is a concept in Biology. Two or more individual Organisms Populations or Taxa are termed conspecific if they belong The Lesser Whitethroat, Sylvia curruca, is a common and widespread Typical warbler which breeds in temperate Europe, except the southwest In Biology, a cryptic species complex is a group of Species which satisfy the biological definition of species that is they are reproductively isolated from each The Small Whitethroat, Sylvia minula, is a Typical warbler. Until recently it was considered Conspecific with the Lesser Whitethroat The present species together with the aridland Small Whitethroat(s) seems to form an Asian lineage in the superspecies. In general terms the Climate of a local or region is said to be arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available Water, to the extent of hindering (Helbig 2001, Jønsson & Fjeldså 2006)

It is distinguished from the Lesser Whitethroat by its darker top of the head and browner back, which results in a coloration of the entire upper head to back region that does not have strong contrasts. Their ranges do not seem to overlap; Hume's Whitethroat inhabits upland regions of Iran and northeastwards into Central Asia to the western reaches of the Himalayas. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south

No subspecies are currently recognized by most authors. From the Balkans to the Caucasus Mountains however, Sylvia curruca caucasica occurs which is intermediate between the Lesser and Hume's Whitethroats (Snow et al. This article is about the terrestrial Eurasian mountain range 1998). It is presently not clear whether the eastern part of this population is correctly assigned to the European species, or consists of hybrids in a contact zone. In Biology, hybrid has two meanings The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa.

References

BirdLife International (2004). Sylvia althaea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 26 April 2007. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

Helbig, A. J. (2001): Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Sylvia. In: Shirihai, Hadoram: Sylvia warblers: 24-25. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. . ISBN 0691088330

Jønsson, Knud A. & Fjeldså, Jon (2006): A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri). Zool. Scripta 35(2): 149–186. Zoologica Scripta (ISSN 0300-3256 is a biology magazine published by Blackwell Publishing Limited, published bi-monthly doi::10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00221.x (HTML abstract)

Snow, David W. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. ; Perrins, Christopher M. ; Doherty, Paul & Cramp, Stanley (1998): The complete birds of the western Palaearctic on CD-ROM. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192685791

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