Babblers (Timaliidae)
Streaked Wren-babbler (Napothera brevicaudata) - HBW 12, p. 208
French: Turdinule à queue courte
German: Stutzschwanztimalie
Spanish: Ratina Colicorta
Other common names: Short-tailed/Streak-throated Wren-babbler
Taxonomy: T[urdinus]. brevicaudatus Blyth, 1855, Mulayit Taung, Amherst District, Tenasserim, Myanmar.
Has been thought to form a superspecies, and possibly to be conspecific, with N. crassa. Races remarkably diverse within rather narrow phenotypic confines, falling into two geographically unassorted groups, one with dull rufous underparts and clearly marked dark and white throat streaks (nominate, striata, rufiventer), and the other with browner underparts and less contrasting, vaguer streaks (stevensi, proxima, griseigularis); leucosticta notably distinctive. Further investigation of species limits required. Birds in N & E Myanmar and W Yu.. View all taxonomy...
Taxonomy: T[urdinus]. brevicaudatus Blyth, 1855, Mulayit Taung, Amherst District, Tenasserim, Myanmar.
Has been thought to form a superspecies, and possibly to be conspecific, with N. crassa. Races remarkably diverse within rather narrow phenotypic confines, falling into two geographically unassorted groups, one with dull rufous underparts and clearly marked dark and white throat streaks (nominate, striata, rufiventer), and the other with browner underparts and less contrasting, vaguer streaks (stevensi, proxima, griseigularis); leucosticta notably distinctive. Further investigation of species limits required. Birds in N & E Myanmar and W Yunnan (China) sometimes separated as race venningi, supposedly larger and more rufous, but fall within range of variation of nominate. Racial identity of birds in NW Laos uncertain, conditionally included in nominate. Seven subspecies recognized.
Has been thought to form a superspecies, and possibly to be conspecific, with N. crassa. Races remarkably diverse within rather narrow phenotypic confines, falling into two geographically unassorted groups, one with dull rufous underparts and clearly marked dark and white throat streaks (nominate, striata, rufiventer), and the other with browner underparts and less contrasting, vaguer streaks (stevensi, proxima, griseigularis); leucosticta notably distinctive. Further investigation of species limits required. Birds in N & E Myanmar and W Yunnan (China) sometimes separated as race venningi, supposedly larger and more rufous, but fall within range of variation of nominate. Racial identity of birds in NW Laos uncertain, conditionally included in nominate. Seven subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- striata (Walden, 1871) - NE India S of R Brahmaputra (including SE Arunachal Pradesh) and NW Myanmar.
- brevicaudata (Blyth, 1855) - S China (W Yunnan), NE, E & SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), NW, W & N Thailand, and NW Laos.
- stevensi (Kinnear, 1925) - S China (SE Yunnan E to W Guangxi), NE & C Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin, N Annam).
- striata (Walden, 1871) - NE India S of R Brahmaputra (including SE Arunachal Pradesh) and NW Myanmar.
- brevicaudata (Blyth, 1855) - S China (W Yunnan), NE, E & SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), NW, W & N Thailand, and NW Laos.
- stevensi (Kinnear, 1925) - S China (SE Yunnan E to W Guangxi), NE & C Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin, N Annam).
- proxima Delacour, 1930 - S Laos and C Vietnam (C Annam).
- griseigularis (Delacour & Jabouille, 1928) - SE Thailand and SW Cambodia.
- rufiventer (Delacour, 1927) - S Annam (Vietnam).
- leucosticta (Sharpe, 1887) - S Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia, including Tioman I.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on a rock, singing Locality Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp rufiventer)
Josep del Hoyo 16 April 2008 4 years ago 36 sec 4.9 -
A bird on the ground, singing in dense undergrowth Locality Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp rufiventer)
Josep del Hoyo 16 April 2008 4 years ago 43 sec 4.5 -
A bird catching a caterpillar and flying away with it Locality Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp rufiventer)
Josep del Hoyo 16 April 2008 4 years ago 37 sec 4.5 -
A bird foraging on the forest floor Locality Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp rufiventer)
Josep del Hoyo 16 April 2008 4 years ago 32 sec 4.1 -
An slow motioned view of a bird on the forest floor Locality Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp rufiventer)
Josep del Hoyo 16 April 2008 4 years ago 17 sec 3.7
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Near a stream in the forest
Locality Chong Yen, Mae Wong National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp brevicaudata)
John A Thompson 13 January 2013 16 weeks ago 4.2 -
A bird peeks out from behind a branch.
Locality Ko Tarutao Island, Tarutao National Marine Park, Southern Thailand, Thailand (ssp leucosticta)
Carmelo López 7 December 2008 2 years ago 3.2 -
Near a forest stream
Locality Chong Yen, Mae Wong National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand
John A Thompson 13 January 2013 16 weeks ago 3 -
A bird behind a tree.
Locality Ko Tarutao Island, Tarutao National Marine Park, Southern Thailand, Thailand (ssp leucosticta)
Carmelo López 7 December 2008 2 years ago 1.7
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Bird calling from forest understorey. Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia
(ssp leucosticta)
Sam Woods 1 June 2008 3 years ago 4 -
Warning call? Locality Doi Chiang Dao National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand
AnteStrand 21 December 2009 2 years ago 3 -
Call. Locality Doi Ang Khang, North Western Thailand, Thailand
AnteStrand 21 December 2009 2 years ago 3
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