Song thrush "thrush." Mavis (Μαβής) can also mean "purple" in Greek. A recent molecular study indicates that the song thrush's closest relatives are the similarly plumaged mistle thrush ("T. viscivorus") and Chinese thrush ("T. mupinensis"); these three species are early offshoots from the lineage of "Turdus" thrushes before they diversified and spread across the globe, and hence are less closely related to other European thrush species such as the blackbird ("T. merula"). The song thrush has three subspecies, with the nominate subspecies, "T. p. philomelos", covering the majority of the species' range. "T. p. hebridensis", described by British ornithologist William Eagle Clarke
Olive thrush Olive thrush The olive thrush ("Turdus olivaceus") is, in its range, one of the most common members of the thrush family (Turdidae). It occurs in east African highlands from Tanzania and Zimbabwe in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in south. It is a bird of forest and woodland, but has locally adapted to parks and large gardens in suburban areas. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the olive thrush in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. He used the French name