Hume's wheatear (Oenanthe albonigra) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. This black-and-white bird is found in southern Afghanistan, Iran, extreme northeast Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Hume's wheatear
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Oenanthe
Species:
O. albonigra
Binomial name
Oenanthe albonigra
(Hume, 1872)

Taxonomy

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Hume's wheatear was formally described in 1872 by the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume from specimens collected on rocky slopes in what is now southern Pakistan. He placed it with the chats in the genus Saxicola and coined the binomial name Saxicola alboniger.[2][3] Hume's wheatear is now placed with 32 other species in the genus Oenanthe that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4]

References

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  1. ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Oenanthe albonigra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22710248A155518584. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22710248A155518584.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Hume, Allan Octavian (1872). "Novelties". Stray Feathers. 1: 1–19 [2–4].
  3. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 129.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 November 2023.