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.
Taxonomy
The genus Myadestes was introduced in 1838 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate a single species, the rufous-throated solitaire, which is therefore the type species of the genus. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mua meaning "fly" and edestēs meaning "eater".
The genus contains 13 species:
Genus Myadestes – Swainson, 1838 – thirteen species
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Scientific name and subspecies
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IUCN status and estimated population
Brown-backed solitaire
Myadestes occidentalis Stejneger, 1882
northwest Mexico to Honduras
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LC
Slate-colored solitaire
Myadestes unicolor Sclater, PL, 1857
south Mexico to Nicaragua
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LC
Townsend's solitaire
Myadestes townsendi (Audubon, 1838)
west Canada to central Mexico
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