The Philippine shortwing (''Brachypteryx poliogyna'') is a species of bird in the
family
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Muscicapidae
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. It is endemic to the Philippines where it favours montane forest.
This species was formerly considered as
subspecies of the white-browed shortwing, now the
Javan shortwing
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...
(''Brachypteryx montana''). The white-browed shortwing was split into five separate species based on the deep genetic difference between the populations coupled with the significant differences in plumage and vocalization.
Seven
subspecies are recognised:
[
* ''B. p. poliogyna'' Ogilvie-Grant, 1895 – montane north ]Luzon
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(north Philippines)
* ''B. p. andersoni'' Rand
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& Rabor
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, 1967 – montane south Luzon
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(north Philippines)
* ''B. p. mindorensis'' Hartert, EJO, 1916 – montane Mindoro
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(northwest Philippines)
* ''B. p. sillimani'' Ripley
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& Rabor, 1962 – montane Palawan
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(southwest Philippines)
* ''B. p. brunneiceps'' Ogilvie-Grant, 1896 – montane Negros and Panay (central west Philippines)
* ''B. p. malindangensis'' Mearns, 1909 – Mount Malindang
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(Zamboanga Peninsula
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, Mindanao
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, south Philippines)
* ''B. p. mindanensis'' Mearns, 1905 – Mount Apo
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, southeast Mindanao
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(south Philippines)
References
Philippine shortwing
Birds described in 1895
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