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Blue whistling thrush
The blue whistling thrush (''Myophonus caeruleus'') is a whistling thrush found along the Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia. It is known for its loud human-like whistling song at dawn and dusk. The widely distributed populations show variations in size and plumage with several of them considered as subspecies. Like others in the genus, they feed on the ground, often along streams and in damp places foraging for snails, crabs, fruits and insects.
==Description==
This whistling thrush is dark violet blue with shiny spangling on the tips of the body feathers other than on the lores, abdomen and under the tail. The wing coverts are a slightly different shade of blue and the median coverts have white spots at their tips. The bill is yellow and stands in contrast. The inner webs of the flight and tail feathers is black. The sexes are similar in plumage.
It measures in length. Weight across the subspecies can range from . For comparison, the blue whistling thrush commonly weighs twice as much as an American robin. Among standard measurements, the wing chord can measure long, the tarsus is and the bill is .〔''Thrushes'' by Peter Clement. Princeton University Press (2001), ISBN 0691088527〕 Size varies across the range with larger thrushes found to the north of the species range and slightly smaller ones to the south, corresponding with Bergmann's rule. In northern China, males and females average and , whereas in India they average and .〔〔''CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses'' by John B. Dunning Jr. (Editor). CRC Press (1992), ISBN 978-0-8493-4258-5.〕
Several populations are given subspecies status. The nominate form with a black bill is found in central and eastern China. The population in Afghanistan, ''turkestanicus'', is often included in the widespread ''temminckii'' which has a smaller bill width at the base and is found along the Himalayas east to northern Burma. The population ''eugenei'', which lacks white spots on the median coverts, is found south into Thailand. Cambodia and the Malay peninsula have ''crassirostris'', while ''dichrorhynchus'' with smaller spangles occurs further south and in Sumatra. The Javan population, ''flavirostris'', has the thickest bill.〔 The subspecies status of several populations has been questioned.
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