Hume's bush warbler

Hume's bush warbler

at Walong
Conservation status
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cettiidae
Genus:	Horornis
Species:	H. brunnescens
Binomial name
*Horornis brunnescens* (Hume, 1872)
Synonyms
Cettia brunnescens

Hume's bush warbler (Horornis brunnescens) is a species of bush warbler (family Cettiidae). It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

It is found in India.

The name commemorates the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume who worked in India.^[1]

References

↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 173–174.

Genera and members of the Cettiidae family

Genera	Pholidornis – tit hylia (formerly in Remizidae) Hylia – green hylia (tentatively placed here) Abroscopus – Abroscopus warblers (3 species) Urosphena – stubtails (5 species) Tesia – tesias (5 species) Horornis – (14 species) Cettia – typical bush warblers (4 species) Tickellia – broad-billed warbler Phyllergates - (2 species) Scotocerca - streaked scrub warbler

Abroscopus	Black-faced warbler Rufous-faced warbler Yellow-bellied warbler

Cettia	Bush-warbler Cetti's warbler Chestnut-crowned bush warbler Chestnut-headed tesia Grey-sided bush warbler

Horornis	Aberrant bush warbler Bougainville bush warbler Brown-flanked bush warbler Fiji bush warbler Hume's bush warbler Japanese bush warbler Manchurian bush warbler Palau bush warbler Philippine bush warbler Shade bush warbler Sunda bush warbler Tanimbar bush warbler Yellow-bellied bush warbler

Phyllergates	Mountain tailorbird Rufous-headed tailorbird

Urosphena	Asian stubtail Bornean stubtail Neumann's warbler Pale-footed bush warbler Timor stubtail

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