The russet bush warbler (''Locustella mandelli'') is a

songbird A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds ( Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin ''oscen'', "songbird". The Passeriformes contains 50 ...

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. Formerly placed in the "

Old World warbler Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxonomic confusion. Two families were split out initially, the ci ...

" assemblage, it is now placed in the newly recognized

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Locustellidae Locustellidae is a newly recognized family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler " wastebin" family. It contains the grass warblers, grassbirds, and the '' Bradypterus'' " bush warblers". These bi ...

. ''B. mandelli'' was until recently considered a subspecies of ''B. seebohmi'', and the name "russet bush warbler" was applied to the entire

species complex In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

. After this was split up,

Benguet bush warbler The Benguet bush warbler (''Locustella seebohmi''), also known as the Benguet grasshopper-warbler, is a songbird species. Formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, it is now placed in the newly recognized family Locustellidae. ''L. s ...

was proposed as a new name for ''B. seebohmi'' proper. The species is found in southeast Asia. The scientific name commemorates the

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naturalist

Louis Mandelli Louis Hildebrand Mandelli (1833–1880) was an Italian settler in India, a tea planter and amateur zoologist and ornithologist. Living in Darjeeling and collecting specimens of birds and animals around Sikkim, he discovered many species from the reg ...

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russet bush warbler The russet bush warbler (''Locustella mandelli'') is a songbird species. Formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, it is now placed in the newly recognized family Locustellidae. ''B. mandelli'' was until recently considered a subspe ...

Birds of Bhutan Birds of Northeast India Birds of South China Birds of Myanmar Birds of Thailand Birds of Laos Birds of Vietnam

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