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The White-browed Tit (Poecile superciliosus, formerly Parus superciliosus) is a species of bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
 in the tit family Paridae. It is endemic to the mountain forests of southwestern China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 (del Hoyo et al. 2007).

It is 13.5–14 cm long, with a weight of 10–12 g. The plumage pattern is very similar to that of the western North American Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee

The Mountain Chickadee is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the titmouse family Paridae. Often, it is still placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b DNA sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships ....
 P. gambeli (of which it has on occasion been considered a subspecies
Subspecies

In biology, subspecies is the taxonomic rank immediately subordinate to a species. A subspecies is a taxonomic group which is less distinct than the Common descent or species from which it originates....
, despite its being on a different continent), differing in the breast and cheeks being rusty brown, not white, and having a longer and more sharply defined white eyebrow; the back is also a richer brown, not greyish-brown (del Hoyo et al.






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The White-browed Tit (Poecile superciliosus, formerly Parus superciliosus) is a species of bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
 in the tit family Paridae. It is endemic to the mountain forests of southwestern China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 (del Hoyo et al. 2007).

It is 13.5–14 cm long, with a weight of 10–12 g. The plumage pattern is very similar to that of the western North American Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee

The Mountain Chickadee is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the titmouse family Paridae. Often, it is still placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b DNA sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships ....
 P. gambeli (of which it has on occasion been considered a subspecies
Subspecies

In biology, subspecies is the taxonomic rank immediately subordinate to a species. A subspecies is a taxonomic group which is less distinct than the Common descent or species from which it originates....
, despite its being on a different continent), differing in the breast and cheeks being rusty brown, not white, and having a longer and more sharply defined white eyebrow; the back is also a richer brown, not greyish-brown (del Hoyo et al. 2007).

It breeds in alpine shrub forests of Berberis
Berberis

Berberis a genus of about 450-500 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs from 1-5 m tall with thorny shoots, native to the temperate and subtropical regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America....
, Rhamnus
Buckthorn

The Buckthorns are a genus of about 100 species of shrubs or small trees from 1-10 m tall , in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. They are native throughout the temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere, and also more locally in the subtropical Southern Hemisphere in parts of Africa and South America....
, Rhododendron
Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It is a large genus with over 1000 species and most have showy flower displays....
, and Salix
Willow

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
 at 3,200–4,235 m altitude, descending in winter to slightly lower levels where it occurs in coniferous forests, primarily Picea
Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the earth....
. It nests on the ground in rock crevices or old rodent burrows (del Hoyo et al. 2007).

The genus name Poecile has often been treated as feminine (giving the species name ending superciliosa); however, this was not specified by the original genus author Johann Jakob Kaup
Johann Jakob Kaup

Johann Jakob Kaup was a Germany naturalist.He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at G?ttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes....
, and under the rules of the ICZN
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals"....
, the genus name must therefore be treated by default as masculine, giving the name ending superciliosus (del Hoyo et al. 2007).