Babblers (Timaliidae)
Spot-necked Babbler (Stachyris strialata) - HBW 12, p. 160
French: Timalie à cou tacheté
German: Fleckenhals-Buschtimalie
Spanish: Timalí Gorjipinto
Other common names: Spotted Tree-babbler, Tickell’s Spotted Babbler
Taxonomy: Timalia strialata S. Müller, 1836, restricted to Padang Residencies, Sumatra.
Has been thought to form a superspecies with S. oglei or possibly to be conspecific. Geographical variation slight, despite number of races named. Birds of this species observed in N Myanmar have not been identified to level of race. Species name often spelt “striolata”, but there are no grounds for this emendation. Seven subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- helenae Delacour & Greenway, 1939 - NW Thailand and adjacent N Laos.
- tonkinensis Kinnear, 1938 - S China (S Yunnan E to Yao Shan, in Guangxi), N & C Laos and Vietnam (Tonkin, N & C Annam).
- swinhoei Rothschild, 1903 - Hainan I.
- helenae Delacour & Greenway, 1939 - NW Thailand and adjacent N Laos.
- tonkinensis Kinnear, 1938 - S China (S Yunnan E to Yao Shan, in Guangxi), N & C Laos and Vietnam (Tonkin, N & C Annam).
- swinhoei Rothschild, 1903 - Hainan I.
- guttata ( Blyth, 1859) - S Myanmar (N Tenasserim) and W Thailand.
- nigrescentior Deignan, 1947 - S Thailand.
- umbrosa ( Kloss, 1921) - N Sumatra.
- strialata ( S. Müller, 1836) - S Sumatra.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird calling alarmed on a branch. Locality Mount Kerinci, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra (Indonesia)
Mike Edgecombe 1 July 2007 4 years ago 17 sec 3.5
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A bird perched on abranch.
Locality Mount Kerinci, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra (Indonesia) (ssp strialata)
James Eaton 1 August 2011 46 weeks ago 3.5
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A bird calling alarmed. Locality Mount Kerinci, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra (Indonesia)
Mike Edgecombe 1 July 2007 18 weeks ago 4
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