White-crested Laughingthrush
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The White-crested Laughingthrush, Garrulax leucolophus is an Old World babbler
. It is found in forest and scrub from the Himalayan
foothills to Indochina
. It formerly included the Sumatran Laughingthrush
as a subspecies
, but unlike that species the plumage
of the White-crested Laughingthrush is rufescent
-brown and white, and the black mask is relatively broad.
Old World babbler
The Old World babblers or timaliids are a large family of mostly Old World passerine birds. They are rather diverse in size and coloration, but are characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent...
. It is found in forest and scrub from the Himalayan
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
foothills to Indochina
Indochina
The Indochinese peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly southwest of China, and east of India. The name has its origins in the French, Indochine, as a combination of the names of "China" and "India", and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory...
. It formerly included the Sumatran Laughingthrush
Sumatran Laughingthrush
The Sumatran Laughingthrush , also known as the Black-and-white Laughingthrush, is an Old World babbler. It is endemic to highland forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it is threatened by habitat loss and capture for the wildlife trade. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the...
as a subspecies
Subspecies
Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...
, but unlike that species the plumage
Plumage
Plumage refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers. The pattern and colours of plumage vary between species and subspecies and can also vary between different age classes, sexes, and season. Within species there can also be a...
of the White-crested Laughingthrush is rufescent
Rufous
Rufous is a colour that may be described as reddish-brown or brownish-red, as of rust or oxidised iron.The first recorded use of rufous as a colour name in English was in the year 1782....
-brown and white, and the black mask is relatively broad.
External links
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
- White-crested Laughingthrush videos on the Internet Bird Collection