The Ornithological Society of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (OSME) The OSME Region List of Bird Taxa: Part C, Passerines. Version 3.4 Mar 2017 For taxa that have unproven and probably unlikely presence, see the Hypothetical List. Red font indicates either added information since the previous version or that further documentation is sought. Not all synonyms have been examined. Serial numbers (SN) are merely an administrative conveninence and may change. Please do not cite them as row numbers in any formal correspondence or papers. Key: Compass cardinals (eg N = north, SE = southeast) are used. Rows shaded thus and with yellow text denote summaries of problem taxon groups in which some closely-related taxa may be of indeterminate status or are being studied. Rows shaded thus and with white text contain additional explanatory information on problem taxon groups as and when necessary. A broad dark orange line, as below, indicates the last taxon in a new or suggested species split, or where sspp are best considered separately. The Passerine Reference List (including References for Hypothetical passerines [see Part E] and explanations of Abbreviated References) follows at Part D. Notes↓ & Status abbreviations→ BM=Breeding Migrant, SB/SV=Summer Breeder/Visitor, PM=Passage Migrant, WV=Winter Visitor, RB=Resident Breeder 1. PT=Parent Taxon (used because many records will antedate splits, especially from recent research) – we use the concept of PT with a degree of latitude, roughly equivalent to the formal term sensu lato , ‘in the broad sense’. 2. The term 'report' or ‘reported’ indicates the occurrence is unconfirmed. 3. English names. We use the recommended names in the International Ornithological Congress World List (see www.worldbirdnames.org) with very few exceptions. The OSME preference is always listed first. We suggest that national lists for countries in the OSME Region adopt the OSME preference, but there is no compulsion to do so! Please note that unused IOC names appear in curly brackets {…}, alternative names in round brackets (…), superseded (re-allocated) names in square brackets […]. 4. Scientific names: we use square brackets […] to indicate superspecies that comprise two or more allospecies – we use the same convention for semispecies – and we use round brackets (…) where the status of a taxon is not entirely clear-cut; eg the evidence may not be wholly convincing and subject to debate, it may not yet fully available, we may have overlooked it or not found it, or the evidence on one part of a taxon’s range may differ from that in another. In its simplest form this is our ‘Don’t know’ category. (Terms such as ‘superspecies’ are explained in the Ornithological Basis of the ORL, where examples are given). 5. As more information is received, the use of abbreviations for countries concerned will increase. See the Country and Territory Abbreviations for details. 6. Many distributions will be diminished by continuing habitat loss, but note that many local extensions occur subsequent to construction of canal, dam and other irrigation works, and that the breeding and wintering distributions are likely to change, often radically, with climate change (Huntley et al 2007). We seek information backed by references to develop and improve any part of the OSME Region List of bird taxa. SN English Name Family, Species or Taxon Working Notes █ Pittidae 601 Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura Monotypic. van Els & Brady 2014 identified a specimen, a juvenile female collected along the Karkheh River, "17 km sw of Shush", Khuzestan, SW Iran, 19 Nov 1968. The age and timing (collected in November) align with normal migration/dispersal timings; Dutch Birding WP List Jan 2015. Origin uncertain (Unclear whether claimed feather abrasion attributable to natural causes, captivity before being traded or captivity after capture somewhere in Iran), nearest known populations 1000km+ near Islamabad Pakistan (an isolate) and Gujurat India. Although occupies montane forest in much of its range, it occurs in low-altitude deciduous or scrub forests, much of which no longer exists in Iran nowadays, due to human agrarian population movement out of Afghanistan into marginally fertile areas. █ Malaconotidae 602 Rosy-patched Bush- Telophorus cruentus Monotypic. Vagrant SE Egypt (ssp cruentus Clements 2007), occurs Halaib Triangle HBW14, EORC. NB Shrike (Rhodophoneus cruentus) Mapped in half-degree square including Perim Island Ash & Atkins 2009. Taxonomy follows Fuchs et al 2004; IOC 2.6. 603 Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus ( formerly African species, ssp percevali HBW14 breeding S Yemen Porter & Warr 1985, probably so S Yemen Warr (Black-crowned Bush- T. senegala) 1992 & Oman Harris & Franklin (H&F) 2000. In SW Arabia, ssp habessinicus resident bushy scrub on slopes Shrike) and in wadis in & adjacent to Tihama, but also also perhaps percevali along the S coastal area of Yemen/Oman border Jennings 2010; perhaps up to 8000bp. Fairly common resident breeder S Oman hills OBL7. █ Campephagidae 604 Rosy Minivet Pericrocotus roseus Monotypic. Further to revision of H&M3 in 'H&M3 Afghan corrigenda' (E Dickinson pers comm), it is now considered to breed just in Afghanistan H&M4. Earlier confusion arose from Afghanistan-Asian Area Checklist (AAC), based on the desk-top taxonomy of UN Food & Agricuture (FAO) 1981 Afghanistan Checklist:Small Minivet P. cinnamomeus (see R&A 2012 map) then seemed the more likely. HBW10 maps only in India, but unusually for HBW, the text differed, including N Pakistan; R&A 2005 supported HBW text. Map in Grimmett et al 1998 for ‘rare & local’ in NE Pakistan, very close to W end of Afghanistan’s Wakhan panhandle possibly muddied understanding more. 605 Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus ethologus NE Afghanistan, Roberts 1992, MacKinnon & Phillips (M&P) 2000, HBW10, R&A 2005; IOC4.1 ssp favillaceus . N Nuristan Ayé et al 2012. Common summer visitor to Pakistan up to NE Afghanistan border, Grimmett et al 1998, 2009. NB Old references eg Bates & Lowther 1952 & Paludan 1959 refer this species to P. brevirostris , Short-billed Minivet: 1950s ID separation criteria then inadequate; the latter's range does not reach Kashmir to the west. 567 Laniidae Zhang et al 2007 formally concluded that Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus & Red-backed Shrike L. collurio are independent species & that Long-tailed Shrike L. schach & extralimital Grey-backed Shrike L. tephronotus are disctinct species. 606 Brown Shrike Lanius [cristatus] cristatus 4ssp HBW13; cristatus likely only ssp to reach Region. Very common breeder north of Kazakhstan in southern taiga (c 56-60ºN) Rogacheva 1992. Earlier status as vagrant Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (Kreuzberg- Mukhina & Kreuzberg (K-M&K) 2005 revised to very rare breeder Altai E Kazakhstan (W&O 2007, Arend Wassink in litt 2009, Ayé et al 2012, Wassink 2015b), perhaps Kyrgyzstan, Lefranc & Worfolk (L&W) 1997, H&F 2000. Vagrant Oman (single record Nov 2008 OBL7), UAE winter Porter & Aspinall 2010, 7 records to 2013 EBRC. Original separation from PT L. cristatus by Voous (1977). Little hybridisation known Parkin & Knox 2010. 607 Red-backed Shrike Lanius [cristatus] collurio H&M4, IOC6.2 opt for monotypic, subsuming sspp erected previously. Not Turkmenistan (K-M&K 2005), breeds (sspp from HBW13) N of Caucasus, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel (rare) where common migrant Perlman & Meyrav 2009, Iran Scott & Adhami 2006, common BM, PM Kazakhstan Wassink 2015b & hybrid population (× L. phoenicuroides ) southern Altai, Saur Mts, Tarbagatai & Zaysan Depression Wassink 2015b, N Kyrgyzstan (mostly), Ven 2002. Passage Iraq Salim et al 2012, fairly common PM Oman OBL7; occurs Afghanistan E Dickinson pers comm status unknown (R&A 2012 suggest fall migration S through Pakistan), but although these birds have been regarded as better included (vide Panov below) in phoenicuroides , Mallalieu & Seargeant 2016 on advice from Tim Worfolk re-identify a 2009 image of Bay-backed Shrike L. vittatus as L.collurio, antedating records of collurio in 2012 (Bamiyan Province, Anssi Kullberg in litt ) and in 2012 & 2013 (Mallalieu & Kaestner 2015). Occurs Egypt Avib, BE. NB Despite monotypycity, populations bear divergent cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) lineages, potentially including cryptic taxa Kerr et al 2009. PT Isabelline Shrike PT Lanius [cristatus] isabellinus IOC2.0 & Svensson et al 2009 accept split into 2 species (see below). NB1 the name isabellinus previously only applied to N China birds (since usually referred to as arenarius, isabellinus then applying to Central Asian birds). Pearson 2000 suggested that isabellinus is the correct name for those then named speculigerus, the basis of which argument Panov 2009 suggests is invalid; Panov synonymises arenarius with isabellinus, noting type specimen of isabellinus does not differ greatly from several long series of speculigerus, & that the type location is not within isabellinus breeding distribution. NB2 Scott & Adhami 2006 use PT for Iran, but L. isabellinu s likely winterer Iran & L. phoenicuroides breeds & winters. NB3 HBW13 suggests that extralimital (breeding WC China) arenarius and tsaidamensis form separate group, raised to species status by some Russians; pro tem, we treat tsaidamensis as potentially separable, but taxon is unstudied (qv 'Eastern Red-backed Shrike' L. (i.) tsaidamensis in ORL Hypothetical List. 608 Daurian Shrike {Isabelline Lanius [isabellinus] This & Turkestan Shrike full species in IOC2.0 & R&A 2005: we note the spatial separation of breeding areas Shrike} (Daurian