Babblers (Timaliidae)

Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush (Dryonastes nuchalis) - HBW 12, p. 233

French: Garrulaxe à nuque marron German: Rotnackenhäherling Spanish: Charlatán Nuquipardo
Other common names: Ogle’s Laughingthrush

Taxonomy: Garrulax nuchalis Godwin-Austen, 1876, Lhota, Naga Hills, Nagaland, India.
Genus traditionally subsumed in Garrulax, but differs in some small details of morphology. May form a superspecies with D. chinensis, and has been treated as conspecific. Monotypic.

Distribution: NE India (SE Arunachal Pradesh S to SE & E Assam and Nagaland) and N Myanmar.

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