Babblers (Timaliidae)

Moustached Laughingthrush (Ianthocincla cineracea) - HBW 12, p. 251

French: Garrulaxe cendré German: Grauhäherling Spanish: Charlatán Ceniciento
Other common names: Ashy/Black-capped Laughingthrush

Taxonomy: Trochalopteron cineraceum Godwin-Austen, 1874, no locality = Thobal Valley, Manipur, India.
Genus traditionally subsumed in Garrulax. Race cinereiceps highly distinctive, and possibly a separate species, but intergrades with strenua in S China; study needed in order to determine width and length of zone of intergradation, and hence to decide whether or not species status warranted. Individuals of this species in SC & SW Sichuan have not been assigned to race. Three subspecies currently recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

cineracea ( Godwin-Austen, 1874) - NE India (Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram) and W Myanmar (Chin Hills).
strenua ( Deignan, 1957) - NE Myanmar and S China (N & W Yunnan).
cinereiceps ( Styan, 1887) - C & E China from S Gansu E to W Shanghai, NW Fujian and N Guangdong, and N & E Sichuan S to S & SE Yunnan and Guizhou; also, apparently disjunctly, in NW & WC Shanxi.

Least Concern

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Adult bird on the ground. Locality Plzen Zoo, Plzen, Plzen Region, Czech Republic (ssp cinereiceps)
Tomasz Doroń 24 October 2011 1 year ago 3.3
Bird perched Locality Waddesdon Manor Aviary, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England, Great Britain
Jonathan Beilby 1 January 2008 3 years ago 3