Babblers (Timaliidae)

Rufous-vented Laughingthrush (Dryonastes gularis) - HBW 12, p. 233

French: Garrulaxe à queue rousse German: Roststeißhäherling Spanish: Charlatán Culirrufo
Other common names: Yellow-breasted/Yellow-throated/McClelland’s Laughingthrush

Taxonomy: Ianthocincla gularis McClelland, 1840, Cachar, or possibly Sadiya, Assam, India.
Genus traditionally subsumed in Garrulax, but differs in some small details of morphology. May form a superspecies with D. delesserti, and in the past commonly considered conspecific. Birds from Laos described as a geographical race, auratus, but considered inseparable from those elsewhere in species’ range. Monotypic.

Distribution: SE Bhutan, NE Indian hill states and N Myanmar; also N & C Laos and adjacent N Annam (Vu Quang), in Vietnam.