Puff-throated Babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps) [XC19811]
by David Edwards from Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, India (song)
Puff-throated Babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps) [XC321751]
by C Sreekumar from Erumeli South, Kottayam, Kerala, China (song)
Subspecies
Subspecies present in northern Myanmar uncertain, presumed to be pectorale. Similarly, in Cambodia, subspecies in north-eastern presumably ubonense, in eastern deignani, and in south-eastern dilloni. Despite high number of named subspecies, several more may exist, e.g. in Myanmar (Arakan, and in Sittang valley), in north-central plains of Thailand, and in Peninsular Malaysia (Langkawi I).
The following 28 subspecies are recognised:
punctatum (Gould, 1838) - South-western Jammu and Kashmir east to Uttaranchal Pradesh, in northern India.
mandellii Blanford, 1871 - Nepal east to north-eastern India (central Arunachal Pradesh).
ruficeps Swainson, 1832 - Peninsular India except south.
olivaceum Jerdon, 1839 - South-western India.
pallidum Abdulali, 1982 - South-eastern India.
chamelum Deignan, 1947 - North-eastern Indian states south of R Brahmaputra (except Manipur) and eastern Bangladesh.
pectorale Godwin-Austen, 1877 - North-eastern India (eastern Arunachal Pradesh) and extreme northern Myanmar.
ripleyi Deignan, 1947 - Margherita area of eastern Assam (north-eastern India).
vocale Deignan, 1951 - Manipur Valley (north-eastern India).
stageri Deignan, 1947 - Southern part of northern Myanmar.
hilarum Deignan, 1947 - Western (northern Chin State) and central Myanmar.
victoriae Deignan, 1947 - Central and southern Chin State (western Myanmar).
shanense Deignan, 1947 - Eastern Myanmar and southern China (western and south-western Yunnan).
minus Hume, 1873 - Southern Myanmar.
subochraceum Swinhoe, 1871 - South-eastern Myanmar (including northern Tenasserim) and adjacent western Thailand.
insularum Deignan, 1947 - Extreme southern Myanmar (southern Tenasserim).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet