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 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 the two are split). On the contrary, it may be split into two species, the rufous-flanked thrush ("T. albicollis") and the grey-flanked thrush (T. phaeopygos). This thrush is long and weighs . The upperparts are dark brown, turning duskier or greyer towards the ocular