Babblers (Timaliidae)

Pale-breasted Illadopsis (Illadopsis rufipennis) - HBW 12, p. 188

French: Akalat à poitrine blanche German: Grauwangen-Buschdrossling Spanish: Tordina Pechipálida
Other common names: Pale-breasted Thrush-babbler, White-breasted Akalat/Illadopsis

Taxonomy: Trichastoma rufipennis Sharpe, 1872, Gabon.
Was formerly often placed in genus Malacocincla or in Trichastoma. Has been thought to form a superspecies with I. pyrrhoptera, normally occurring at lower altitudes than latter in areas of sympatry in E of range. Race distans, differing from others in song and proportions, may represent a separate species. Birds from Pugu Hills (and Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve), in Tanzania, sometimes separated as race puguensis, but considered better treated as part of distans. Four subspecies recognized.

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