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Babblers (Timaliidae)

Pin-striped Tit-babbler (Macronus gularis) - HBW 12, p. 181

French: Timalie à gorge striée German: Strichelmeisentimalie Spanish: Timalí Goliestriado
Other common names: Yellow-breasted Babbler/Tit-babbler, Striated/Striped/Stripe-throated Babbler/Tit-babbler

Taxonomy: Timalia gularis Horsfield, 1822, Sumatra.
Original description of genus included two different spellings of name (Macronus, Macronous); current name determined by ICZN Principle of First Reviser (see page 78). Formerly treated as conspecific with M. bornensis. Geographically isolated Philippine race woodi distinctive, and perhaps better treated as a separate species or, conceivably, as conspecific with M. kelleyi, with which (along with M. flavicollis) it shares song type. Many races weakly differentiated, and published diagnoses often based on trivial differences and not always supported by .. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Timalia gularis Horsfield, 1822, Sumatra.
Original description of genus included two different spellings of name (Macronus, Macronous); current name determined by ICZN Principle of First Reviser (see page 78). Formerly treated as conspecific with M. bornensis. Geographically isolated Philippine race woodi distinctive, and perhaps better treated as a separate species or, conceivably, as conspecific with M. kelleyi, with which (along with M. flavicollis) it shares song type. Many races weakly differentiated, and published diagnoses often based on trivial differences and not always supported by museum evidence; number of races probably too high, and several may in due course be synonymized. Fourteen subspecies currently recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • rubicapilla ( Tickell, 1833) - Nepal, Bhutan, NE & EC India and Bangladesh.
  • ticehursti ( Stresemann, 1940) - W & SW Myanmar.
  • sulphureus ( Rippon, 1900) - N, E (except extreme E part) & SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), NW & W Thailand and S China (SW Yunnan).

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  • rubicapilla ( Tickell, 1833) - Nepal, Bhutan, NE & EC India and Bangladesh.
  • ticehursti ( Stresemann, 1940) - W & SW Myanmar.
  • sulphureus ( Rippon, 1900) - N, E (except extreme E part) & SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), NW & W Thailand and S China (SW Yunnan).
  • lutescens ( Delacour, 1926) - NE Myanmar, extreme NW & NE Thailand, S China (SE Yunnan, SW Guangxi), Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin, N Annam).
  • kinneari ( Delacour & Jabouille, 1924) - C Vietnam (C Annam).
  • saraburiensis Deignan, 1956 - EC Thailand and W Cambodia.
  • versuricola ( Oberholser, 1922) - E Cambodia and S Vietnam (S Annam, Cochinchina).
  • condorensis ( Robinson, 1920) - Con Son I, off S Vietnam.
  • connectens ( Kloss, 1918) - extreme S Myanmar (S Tenasserim) and adjacent SW, SC & SE Thailand.
  • archipelagicus ( Oberholser, 1922) - Mergui Archipelago, off SW Tenasserim (Myanmar).
  • inveteratus ( Oberholser, 1922) - coastal islands off SE Thailand and adjacent Cambodia.
  • chersonesophilus ( Oberholser, 1922) - S Thailand and N Peninsular Malaysia.
  • gularis ( Horsfield, 1822) - S Peninsular Malaysia S to Sumatra (including Banyak I and Batu Is).
  • woodi ( Sharpe, 1877) - Palawan and Balabac, in W Philippine Is.

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