Rufous-throated solitaire
# Rufous-throated solitaire

The rufous-throated solitaire (Myadestes genibarbis) is a species of bird placed in the family Turdidae.

## Distribution and habitat

It is found on Dominica, Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, and Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

## Names

The bird is nicknamed the siffleur montagne (or mountain whistler) in Dominica; a local folk group of the early 1970s, the Siffleur Montagne Chorale, named themselves after it. In the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the bird is called solitario gorjirrufo.

## Taxonomy

The subspecies M. g. sibilans is sometimes considered a full species, as the Saint Vincent solitaire (Myadestes sibilans).

