White-browed bush chat

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| name = White-browed bush chat

| image= Stolickza's Bushchat.jpg

| image_caption = Male in non-breeding plumage at Tal Chhapar Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=Saxicola macrorhynchus |volume=2017 |page=e.T22710160A110578039 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22710160A110578039.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Saxicola

| species = macrorhynchus

| authority = (Stoliczka, 1872)

| synonyms = Saxicola macrorhyncha

}}

The white-browed bush chat (Saxicola macrorhynchus),Saxicola is masculine leading to the species epithet ending in -us also known as Stoliczka's bushchat, is an Old World flycatcher in the genus Saxicola. The alternative name is after the discoverer, geologist and explorer Ferdinand Stoliczka.

This desert specialist has a small, declining population because of agricultural intensification and encroachment, which qualifies it as vulnerable.

The white-browed bush chat is found in an area of semi-arid country in north-western India and eastern Pakistan.{{cite news|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2222900/1-rare-bird-sighted-98-long-years/|title=Rare bird sighted after 98 long years|first=Sameer|last=Mandhro|work=The Express Tribune|date=16 May 2020|access-date=17 May 2020}} It has apparently strayed as far east as the Bharatpur area of Rajasthan and as far south as Goa and Pune,{{cite journal|author=Rao, Rahul|year=2007|title=Sighting of Stoliczka's Bushchat Saxicola macrorhynchus in Pune District, Maharashtra, Western India.|journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume=104|issue=2|pages=214}} with two simultaneous historical records from southern Afghanistan.