Babblers (Timaliidae)

Eyebrowed Wren-babbler (Napothera epilepidota) - HBW 12, p. 208

French: Petite Turdinule German: Streifenbrusttimalie Spanish: Ratina Cejuda
Other common names: Small/Lesser/Streak-breasted Wren-babbler; Austen’s Small Wren-babbler (roberti); Grant’s Wren-babbler (guttaticollis)

Taxonomy: Myiothera epilepidota Temminck, 1828, Java.
Geographical variation considerable. Race laotiana often synonymized with amyae; birds of latter race from Tonkin (N Vietnam), however, much larger and longer-billed than other races, and further taxonomic investigation therefore required. Birds from SE Laos presumed to be assignable to laotiana. Race bakeri rather poorly differentiated from davisoni and perhaps better merged with it. Proposed race mendeni (from S Sumatra highlands) considered a synonym of diluta. Thirteen subspecies recognized.

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