Saxicola jerdoni (Blyth, 1867)

Le, Hung Manh, Ho, Thang, Le, Trung Nguyen Thoi, Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc & Nguyen, Thach Dang, 2024, New records of birds from Central Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 133721-e 133721 : e133721-

Saxicola jerdoni (Blyth, 1867)

Saxicola jerdoni (Blyth, 1867)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceID: 0BDC36E8-433C-5B6D-BCBB-417BE007BD51; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Aves; order: Passeriformes ; family: Muscicapidae ; genus: Saxicola ; Location: country: Vietnam; stateProvince: Nghe An; locality: Ky Son ; verbatimElevation: 1,043 m; verbatimLatitude: 19 ° 14.471 ’ N; verbatimLongitude: 104 ° 08.129 ’ E

Conservation status

Least Concern

Distribution

Jerdon's Bushchat has been recorded as a rare to scarce resident in East Tonkin, with additional records of uncertain status in West Tonkin ( Robson 2008, Craik and Minh 2018, Hung et al. 2021 b). This is the first confirmed record of the species for North Annam, Central Vietnam. Elsewhere, this species has been recorded as resident in Nepal, Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Thailand ( IUCN 2024).

Diagnosis

Size: 15 cm. Male: Uniformly glossy blackish upperside and all white underside diagnostic (Fig. 9 ). Female: Brown upperparts, greyish underparts, whiter on throat (Fig. 10 ).

Figures

Figure 9. The male Saxicola jerdoni (IEBR B. 582) was photographed in the Ky Son area, Nghe An Province.

Figure 10. The female of Saxicola jerdoni (IEBR B. 583) was photographed in the Ky Son area, Nghe An Province.