White-browed Scimitar-Babbler (Pomatorhinus schisticeps)

Other Names (World)
White-browed Scimitar-Babbler, Slaty-headed Scimitar-babbler, East Himalayan Slaty-headed Scimitar-babbler, White-browed Scimitar Babbler

Family
Timaliidae (Scimitar-babblers And Allies)

Size
21 - 23 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hodgson, 1836

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (37)...)

White-browed Scimitar Babbler (Pomatorhinus schisticeps) [XC754569]
by Greg Irving from Bokor National Park, road up to top, Kampot Province, Cambodia (call)

White-browed Scimitar Babbler (Pomatorhinus schisticeps) [XC26535]
by Marc Anderson from Mount Lang Bian, Vietnam (song)

Subspecies
Has been treated as conspecific with Indian Scimitar-babbler (Pomatorhinus horsfieldii) and Sri Lanka Scimitar-babbler (Pomatorhinus melanurus) and may also be close to Chestnut-backed Scimitar-babbler (Pomatorhinus montanus). A population of scimitar-babblers in central Laos (at Nam Theun headwaters) exhibits signs of intergradation between present species and Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler (Pomatorhinus ruficollis) and may represent hybrids between the two, although they behave as distinct species elsewhere in their ranges. Named subspecies fastidiosus included in olivaceus, as no diagnostic characters apparent in a sample larger than that on which original description based. Populations of present species in south-eastern Bangladesh and western Mizoram (north-eastern India) have not been identified at subspecific level.

The following 13 subspecies are recognised:

leucogaster Gould, 1838 - Northern India from Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) east to Garhwal (Uttaranchal Pradesh).
schisticeps Hodgson, 1836 - Kumaon (Uttaranchal Pradesh) east to north-eastern India (central Arunachal Pradesh).
salimalii Ripley, 1948 - Mishmi Hills, in eastern Arunachal Pradesh (north-eastern India).
cryptanthus Hartert, 1915 - Meghalaya, southern Assam, Nagaland and northern Manipur (north-eastern India) southern at least to north-eastern Bangladesh.
mearsi Ogilvie-Grant, 1905 - Western and central Myanmar (west of R Irrawaddy).
nuchalis Wardlaw-Ramsay, RG, 1877 - Central and south-eastern Myanmar (east of R Irrawaddy).
ripponi Harington, 1910 - Central (Mogok) and north-eastern Myanmar, north-western Thailand and north-western Laos.
difficilis Deignan, 1956 - Southern Myanmar (including northern Tenasserim) and adjacent north-western Thailand.
olivaceus Blyth, 1847 - Southern Myanmar (Tenasserim except north) and western and southern Thailand.
humilis Delacour, 1932 - Northern and eastern Thailand, southern Laos and Vietnam (central Annam).
klossi Baker, ECS, 1917 - South-eastern Thailand and south-western Cambodia.
annamensis Robinson & Kloss, 1919 - Extreme eastern Cambodia and southern Vietnam (southern Annam, northern Cochinchina).
fastidiosus Hartert, 1916 - Malay Peninsula (southern Myanmar and Isthmus of Kra to Trang).

References
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