Babblers (Timaliidae)
Rufous-fronted Babbler (Stachyridopsis rufifrons) - HBW 12, p. 180
French: Timalie à front roux
German: Rotstirntimalie
Spanish: Timalí Frentirrufo
Other common names: Red-fronted Babbler, Hume’s Babbler/Tree-babbler; Buff-chested Babbler (ambigua, adjuncta, planicola and insuspecta); Deignan’s Babbler (“S. rodolphei”)
Taxonomy: Stachyris rufifrons Hume, 1873, western slopes of the Pegu Hills, Lower Myanmar.
Genus formerly merged with Stachyris. Races ambigua, adjuncta, planicola and insuspecta sometimes treated as representing a separate species S. ambigua, on basis of reports of co-occurrence of certain taxa, but evidence unclear. Individuals of this genus observed in C Laos may belong with race insuspecta or with nominate race of S. ruficeps; further study required. Proposed form S. rodolphei, known only from Doi Chiang Dao, in NW Thailand, is regarded as a synonym of nominate race. Nine subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- ambigua Harington, 1915 - N & E India (Sikkim and N West Bengal E throughout NE states; N Eastern Ghats in E Orissa and NE Andhra Pradesh), Bhutan, E Bangladesh, and NW Myanmar.
- planicola ( Mayr, 1941) - S part of N Myanmar; probably also W Yunnan, in S China.
- pallescens Ticehurst, 1932 - W Myanmar.
- ambigua Harington, 1915 - N & E India (Sikkim and N West Bengal E throughout NE states; N Eastern Ghats in E Orissa and NE Andhra Pradesh), Bhutan, E Bangladesh, and NW Myanmar.
- planicola ( Mayr, 1941) - S part of N Myanmar; probably also W Yunnan, in S China.
- pallescens Ticehurst, 1932 - W Myanmar.
- rufifrons ( Hume, 1873) - SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim) and NW & W Thailand.
- adjuncta ( Deignan, 1939) - N Thailand, N & C Laos and N Vietnam (W Tonkin, N Annam).
- insuspecta ( Deignan, 1939) - S Laos.
- obscura Stuart Baker, 1917 - S Thailand.
- poliogaster ( Hume, 1880) - Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and N & C Borneo.
- sarawacensis ( Chasen, 1939) - W Borneo.
- Least Concern
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