Chinese nuthatch [SEP] parent taxon
Chinese nuthatch
The Chinese nuthatch or snowy-browed nuthatch ("Sitta villosa") is a species of bird in the Sittidae family. It is found in China, North Korea, and South Korea.
Description.
The Chinese nuthatch grows to 12 cm in length. Both sexes have bluish-grey backs, and buff to orange-cinnamon breasts. The males has a black cap and eyestripe with a white supercilium, and whitish cheeks and throats, while the female has a grey crown, with a narrower
other by almost , Przevalski's nuthatch was described as closely related to the white-cheeked nuthatch, and was thereafter often considered and treated conspecifically, as a subspecies of "S. leucopsis".
In 2005, Pamela C. Rasmussen granted the taxon autonomous status in her book, "Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide", uncoupling the species from "S. leucopsis." The classification was noted by ornithologists Nigel J. Collar and John D. Pilgrim in 2007, and endorsed by the International Ornithological Congress, by Alan P.