Hume's leaf warbler
| Hume's leaf warbler | |
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| At 10,000 feet (3,000 m) ASL in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, India | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Phylloscopidae |
| Genus: | Phylloscopus |
| Species: | P. humei |
| Binomial name | |
| Phylloscopus humei (Brooks, 1878) | |
| Subspecies | |
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Phylloscopus humei humei (Brooks, 1878) | |
| Range of P. humei | |
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Hume's leaf warbler or Hume's warbler (Phylloscopus humei) is a small leaf warbler which breeds in the mountains of inner Asia. This warbler is migratory and winters mainly in India.
The English name and the specific humei commemorate Allan Octavian Hume, a British civil servant and ornithologist based in India. The genus name Phylloscopus is from Ancient Greek phullon, "leaf", and skopos, "seeker" (from skopeo, "to watch"). Like most similar songbirds, it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.