Babblers (Timaliidae)
Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush (Trochalopteron erythrocephalum) - HBW 12, p. 260
French: Garrulaxe à tête rousse
German: Rotscheitelhäherling
Spanish: Charlatán Coronicastaño
Other common names: Red-headed Laughingthrush; Black-eared Laughingthrush (nigrimentum)
Taxonomy: Cinclosoma erythrocephalum Vigors, 1832, Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Genus traditionally subsumed in Garrulax. Until recently regarded as conspecific with T. chrysopterum, T. melanostigma, T. peninsulae and even T. ngoclinhense; race woodi of T. chrysopterum was initially retained in present species. Races kali and nigrimentum intergrade. Proposed race imprudens (from hills of Assam N & E of R Brahmaputra) is indistinguishable from latter. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- erythrocephalum (Vigors, 1832) - W Himachal Pradesh E to Uttaranchal Pradesh, in N India.
- kali (Vaurie, 1953) - W & C Nepal.
- nigrimentum Oates, 1889 - E Nepal E to Bhutan and NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, N Assam) and adjacent S China (SE Xizang).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two birds feeding on rice thrown on the ground. Locality Pangot, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India (ssp kali)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 February 2008 3 years ago 10 sec 3.8 -
A bird foraging on the ground Locality Pangot, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India (ssp kali)
Guus van Duin 29 December 2005 4 years ago 41 sec 3.5
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