词条 | Banded pitta | |
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| name = Banded pittas | image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - MMNAT01 AF NNM001000100 001 - Natuurkundige Commissie voor Nederlandsch-Indië - Bird species - Art, crop.jpg | image_caption = Head of a banded pitta | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Passeriformes | familia = Pittidae | genus = Hydrornis | synonyms = }} The banded pittas, Hydrornis (guajana) spp., are a group of birds in the Pittidae family that were formerly lumped as a single species, the banded pitta. They are found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas. DescriptionThe group includes four birds, which can be divided into three main groups: The species from Java and Bali has a yellow eyebrow, underparts that are densely barred in yellowish and blackish-blue and a narrow blue band on the upper chest; irena and ripleyi from the Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra have a more orange eyebrow, a blue belly and a chest that is barred orange and dark bluish (more orange towards the sides, blue towards the center); and schwaneri from Borneo has a blue mid-belly and yellow flanks and chest densely barred with blackish. Females of all birds are significantly duller than the males. There are also vocal differences between these, and since 1993 they have been considered by several taxonomists to be better treated as three separate species:
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