Dumetia
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Dumetia is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae that are found in India and Sri Lanka.
Tawny bellied warbler 2 by David Raju
Dark fronted Babbler
Edward Blyth
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Edward Blyth was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta. He catalogued the specimens in the collection
Dumetia
…in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae that are found in India and Sri Lanka. The genus Dumetia was introduced in 1852 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth. The genus name is from Latin dumetum, dumeti, meaning "thicket." Blyth listed two species in the genus, and of these, George Robert Gray in 1855…
Edward Blyth
Dedication page of Hume's "My Scrapbook" (1869)
Family grave of Edward Blyth in Highgate Cemetery (west side)