Crescent-chested Babbler (Cyanoderma melanothorax) [XC37240]
by David Edwards from Gunung Gede National Park, Java, Indonesia (?)
Crescent-chested Babbler (Cyanoderma melanothorax) [XC660385]
by Brian Cox from Baluran National Park, Java, Indonesia (song)
Subspecies
Has sometimes been placed in genus Macronus. Plumage geographically variable, to greater extent than is reflected in current subspecific classification; on other hand, at least one authority prefers to merge mendeni and albigula with nominate. A further, undescribed subspecies may exist on Bawean I, off north-eastern Java.
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
melanothorax (Temminck, 1823) - Western and central Java.
mendeni (Neumann, 1935) - Indramayu, in western Java.
albigula (Stresemann, 1930) - Mt Papandayan, in western Java.