Horsfield's Babbler (Malacocincla sepiaria)

Other Names (World)
Horsfield's Babbler, Horsfield's Jungle Babbler, Rusty-brown Babbler, Koengke Babbler (vanderbilti), Vanderbilt's Babbler (vanderbilti)

Family
Pellorneidae (Ground Babblers)

Size
14 - 15.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Horsfield, 1821)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, heavily degraded former forest. From sea-level - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Brunei Darussalam (B) (R) (NB), Indonesia (B) (R) (NB), Malaysia (B) (R) (NB), Thailand (B) (R) (NB).

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 (2020) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (79)...)

Horsfield's Babbler (Malacocincla sepiaria) [XC214481]
by Frank Lambert from Johor, Panti Forest Reserve, Bunker Trail, cKm5, Malaysia (song)

(Malacocincla sepiaria) [XC665339]
by Jelle Scharringa from Endau Rompin National Park, Brunei (song)

Subspecies
Horsfield's Babbler (Malacocincla sepiaria) and Vanderbilt's Babbler (Malacocincla vanderbilti) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Malacocincla sepiaria following Hoogerwerf (1966). Gender agreement of Malacocincla sepiaria follows David and Gosselin (2002a).

Previously thought to be conspecific with Black-browed Babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata). Form described from Aceh (northern Sumatra) as Vanderbilt's Babbler (Malacocincla vanderbilti) now known to be synonym of subspecies barussana of present species. Proposed subspecies liberale (north-western Sumatra) merged with barussana, and minor (eastern Java and Bali) with nominate.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

tardinata Hartert, 1915 - Extreme southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
barussana Robinson and Kloss, 1921 - Sumatra.
harterti Chasen & Kloss, 1929 - Northern Borneo.
rufiventris Salvadori, 1874 - Southern Borneo.
sepiaria (Horsfield, 1821) - Java and Bali.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Horsfields Babbler (Malacocincla sepiaria) - 10 files

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