Mountain chiffchaff Mountain chiffchaff The mountain chiffchaff or eastern chiffchaff ("Phylloscopus sindianus") is a species of leaf warbler found in the Caucasus ("P. s. lorenzii") and Himalayas ("P. s. sindianus"), and is an altitudinal migrant, moving to lower levels in winter. The nominate subspecies is similar to the Siberian chiffchaff, but with a finer darker bill, browner upperparts and buff flanks; its song is almost identical to the common chiffchaff, but the call is a weak "psew". "P. s. lorenzii" is warmer and darker brown than the nominate race; it is sympatric with common chiffchaff in a small area in the Western
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia with one or more photographs as well as a distribution map. The taxonomy and nomenclature in the first edition followed "The Birds of Indonesia: a Checklist" by Peter Andrew from 1992; this was the most used checklist at the time, using the so-called ‘crows-last’ sequence. The book was a companion to "A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia" which was published the previous year, in 2000. However, this volume used a different checklist as a reference with a ‘buntings last’ sequence. "A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia" was reprinted several times during the following years, but