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
White-necked thrush approach members of the "phaeopygos" group in both plumage and colour of bill. If the two groups are split, the common name rufous-flanked thrush has been suggested for "T. albicollis", with "T. phaeopygos" retaining the common name white-necked thrush or being renamed grey-flanked thrush. White-necked thrush The white-necked thrush ("Turdus albicollis") is a songbird found in forest and woodland in South America. The taxonomy is potentially confusing, and it sometimes includes the members of the "T. assimilis" group as subspecies, in which case the "combined species" is referred to as the white-throated thrush (a name limited to "T. assimilis" when