White-browed Scimitar Babbler (Pomatorhinus schisticeps) [XC892467]
by id from Above Khellong, India (call, song)
White-browed Scimitar Babbler (Pomatorhinus schisticeps) [XC753352]
by Ding Li Yong from Bokor National Park, road up to top, Kampot Province, Cambodia (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.