Scaly-breasted thrasher

"Allenia" redirects here. It is also a junior synonym of the plant genus Micrantheum.
Scaly-breasted thrasher
Scaly-breasted thrasher. Coulibistrie, Dominica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae
Genus: Allenia
Cory, 1891
Species: A. fusca
Binomial name
Allenia fusca
Müller, 1776
Synonyms

Margarops fuscus

The scaly-breasted thrasher (Allenia fusca) is a species of bird in the Mimidae family found in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It was formerly united with the pearly-eyed thrasher in Margarops but now is again placed in the monotypic genus Allenia.

It is found in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It may have disappeared from Barbados, Barbuda and Sint Eustatius. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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