Myadestes

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Myadestes
Puaiohi (M. palmeri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Turdidae
Genus:	Myadestes Swainson, 1838
Species
See text

Myadestes is a genus of solitaires, medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the thrush family, Turdidae.

They are found in the Americas and Hawaiʻi, where several island species have become extinct.

Species in taxonomic order[]

• Myadestes occidentalis Stejneger, 1882 - brown-backed solitaire (Mexico, northern Central America)
• Myadestes unicolor Sclater, 1857 - slate-colored solitaire (Mexico, Central America)
• Myadestes townsendi Audubon, 1838 - Townsend's solitaire (North America)
• Myadestes myadestinus - kāmaʻo (Kauaʻi) (extinct, 1990s)
• Myadestes palmeri Rothschild, 1893 - puaiohi (Kauaʻi)
• Myadestes lanaiensis Wilson, 1891 - olomaʻo (Oʻahu, Maui, Lānaʻi and Molokaʻi) (probably extinct, 1980s?)
  • Myadestes lanaiensis woahensis - ʻāmaui (extinct, 1850s)
  • Myadestes lanaiensis lanaiensis - Lānaʻi olomaʻo (extinct, 1931–1933)
  • Myadestes lanaiensis rutha - Molokaʻi olomaʻo (probably extinct, 1980s?)
• Myadestes obscurus J. F. Gmelin, 1789 - ʻōmaʻo (island of Hawaiʻi)
• Myadestes elisabeth Lembeye, 1850 - Cuban solitaire
  • Myadestes elisabeth retrusus - pines solitaire (probably extinct, late 1930s, or 1970s?)
• Myadestes genibarbis - rufous-throated solitaire (Caribbean)
• Myadestes melanops - black-faced solitaire (Costa Rica, western Panama)
• Myadestes coloratus Nelson, 1912 - varied solitaire (Panama, Colombia)
• Myadestes ralloides D'Orbigny, 1840 - Andean solitaire

References[]

1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4072338