Black-throated Laughingthrush (Garrulax chinensis)

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
23 - 30 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Scopoli, 1786)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Cambodia (B), China (mainland), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (97)...)

Black-throated Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis) [XC156451]
by Peter Ericsson from , Vietnam (song)

Black-throated Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis) [XC35885]
by Brian Cox from , Vietnam (song)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush (Garrulax nuchalis), and has been considered conspecific. Population in southern part of eastern Thailand apparently not yet assigned to subspecies. Form "lugens" (from Indochina) is a dark morph of nominate subspecies.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

lochmius (Deignan, 1941) - Southern China (south-western Yunnan), east-central and eastern Myanmar (south to extreme northern Tenasserim), north-western and north-eastern Thailand and north-western Laos.
propinquus (Salvadori, 1913) - Southern Myanmar (Tenasserim) and western Thailand.
chinensis (Scopoli, 1786) - South-eastern China (south-eastern Yunnan east to Guangxi and central Guangdong), north-east, central and southern Laos and Vietnam (south to central Annam).
monachus (Swinhoe, 1870) - Hainan I. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Hainan Laughingthrush (Garrulax monachus).
germaini (Oustalet, 1890) - Southern Vietnam (southern Annam, Cochinchina) and adjacent eastern Cambodia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-throated Laughingthrush (Garrulax chinensis) - 10 files

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