Erythrogenys
Sign in to saveErythrogenys is a genus of scimitar babblers, jungle birds with long downcurved bills. These are birds of tropical Asia.
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Erythrogenys is a genus of scimitar babblers, jungle birds with long downcurved bills. These are birds of tropical Asia.
==Taxonomy== The genus Erythrogenys was introduced in 1930 by the British ornithologist E. C. Stuart Baker. He specified the type species as Pomatorhinus erythrogens that had been described in 1831 by Nicholas Vigors. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ερυθρος/eruthros meaning "red" with γενυος/genuos meaning "cheek".