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Lesser Shortwing
Brachypteryx leucophris (Temminck, 1828)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Lesser Shortwing, Brachypteryx leucophris, is a chat in the family Muscicapidae that breeds in montane parts of north-west India, eastern China and Vietnam, as well as the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor and Wetar. It belongs to the passerines and was described by Temminck in 1828. Its range extends across the Oriental Region and into Australasia. It is associated with subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region, Australasia: montane nw India through e China and Vietnam, Malay Pen., Sumatra, Java and Bali, and Lombok to Timor and Wetar (w to e Lesser Sundas)
