The chestnut-headed tesia (Cettia castaneocoronata) is a small insectivorous songbird formerly of the "Old World warbler" family but nowadays placed in the bush warbler family (Cettiidae).
Location and habitat
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Taxonomy The chestnut-headed tesia was formally described by the English army officer and zoologist Edward Burton in 1836 under the binomial name Sylvia castaneocoronata. Although bearing the year 1835 on the title page, the volume did not appear until 1836. The specific epithet combines the Latin castaneus meaning "chestnut-coloured" and coronatus meaning "crowned". Formerly placed in the genus Tesia, a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011 found that the chestnut-headed tesia was embedded in a clade containing members of the genus Cettia.
It split from the Chestnut-crowned bush warbler about 5 million years ago.
Three subspecies are recognised: C. c. castaneocoronata (Burton, 1836) – Himalayas and northeast India to south China and north Laos C. c. abadiei (Delacour & Jabouille, 1930) – north Vietnam C. c. ripleyi (Deignan, 1951) – Yunnan (south China)
References
External links Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the chestnut-headed tesia