Puff-throated Babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps) [XC788170]
by David Edwards from Song Phi Nong, Kaeng Krachan District, Phetchaburi, India (song)
Puff-throated Babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps) [XC845716]
by Lim Ying Hien from Kho Hong (near Tambon Kho Hong), Amphoe Hat Yai, Chang Wat Songkhla, Thailand (alarm call)
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).