Chrysomma altirostre altirostre Jerdon, 1862
Irrawaddy Jerdon’s babbler, Burmese Jerdon’s babbler
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Chrysomma altirostre Jerdon, 1862
Conservation Status
Last record: 9 July 1941 (Smythies, 1953)
Rediscovered in June 2014
Distribution
Irrawaddy-Sittang Plain, Myanmar (=Burma)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Jerdon, T. C. (1862). Notice of some new species of birds from Upper Burmah. Ibis 4: 19-23.
Other references:
Benstead, P. and Gilroy, J. (2011). Species Factsheet: Chrysomma altirostre. BirdLife International, Cambridge.
BirdLife International. (2001). Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Cambridge UK: BirdLife International.
Deignan, H. G. (1964). Subfamily Timaliinae, pp. 240-429. In: Mayr, E. and Paynter Jr, R. A. (eds.). Check-list of birds of the world, 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Fuller, Errol. (2000). Extinct Birds. Oxford University Press.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [pp. 213-214]
Rheindt, Frank E., Tizard, Robert, Pwint, Nila and Lin, Naing. (2014). The rediscovery of Myanmar’s Jerdon’s Babbler Chrysomma altirostre altirostre. BirdingASIA 22: 13-15.
Sadanandan, Keren R. et al. (2018). Genetic and biometric variation across the fragmented range of Jerdon’s Babbler, Chrysomma altirostre, a threatened Oriental grassland specialist. Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-018-1530-7 [Abstract]
Showler, D. A. and Davidson, P. (1999). Observations of Jerdon’s Babbler Chrysomma altirostre and Rufous-vented Prinia Prinia burnesii in Punjab and North-West Frontier Provinces, Pakistan. Forktail 15(1999): 66-76.
Smith, H. C. (1942) Notes on birds of Burma. Simla, India (privately printed).
Smythies, B. E. & Garthwaite, P. F. (1940) The birds of Burma. First edition. Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press.
Smythies, B. E. (1953) The birds of Burma. Second edition. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.
Smythies, B. E. (1986). The birds of Burma. Third edition. Liss, Hants and Pickering, Ontario: Nimrod Press and Silvio Mattacchione.
http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/userfiles/file/Species/AsRDBPDFs/species/chryalti.pdf
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150305-birds-extinct-rediscovered-myanmar-burma-animals-science/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20150305news-extinctbird&utm_campaign=Content&sf7836482=1