White-browed Shrike-babbler

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Vireonidae (Vireos)

White-browed Shrike-babbler

Pteruthius aeralatus

红翅䴗鹛 (hóng chì jú méi)

    Malay : Cekup-Kekicau Bercelak Biasa

    Japanese : ブライスモズチメドリ (bu-ra-i-su mo zu chime-dori)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : ブライス鵙知目鳥 / ブライス百舌知目鳥

Taxonomy update for 2022

Himalayan Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius ripleyi, Blyth’s Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aeralatus & Dalat Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius annamensis, genetic divergence (as measured by mitochondrial DNA; Reddy 2008) between these species is low, and plumage differences between most of these also are few and subtle (Rheindt and Eaton 2009). Separation into three species has been justified on the basis of vocal differences (Rheindt and Eaton 2009), but a more recent analysis suggests that vocalizations may be less consistently different than previously thought (Boesman 2016n). Therefore all three species are lumped as White-browed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aeralatus. 

We continue to recognize each of the three previously recognized species as groups: monotypic groups White-browed Shrike-Babbler (Himalayan) Pteruthius aeralatus ripleyi and White-browed Shrike-Babbler (Dalat) Pteruthius aeralatus annamensis, and a polytypic group White-browed Shrike-Babbler (Blyth’s) Pteruthius aeralatus [aeralatus Group], with subspecies aeralatus, schauenseei, cameranoi, and robinsoni. The former Blyth’s Shrike-Babbler also included two additional monotypic groups: change the English name of the group Pteruthius aeralatus validirostris from Blyth’s Shrike-Babbler (Chestnut-winged) to White-browed Shrike-Babbler (Chestnut-winged), and of the group Pteruthius aeralatus ricketti from Blyth’s Shrike-Babbler (Grey-breasted) to White-browed Shrike-Babbler (Grey-breasted).

    Size : 14 cm, 29–44 g

    

    Subspecies (8) and Distribution

• Pteruthius aeralatus aeralatus (Blyth, E 1855) – [aeralatus Group]
  – mountains of eastern Myanmar to northwestern Thailand and (?) western Cambodia.
• Pteruthius aeralatus schauenseei (Deignan, HG 1946) – [aeralatus Group]
  – mountains of southern Thailand and southern Myanmar to Isthmus of Kra.
• Pteruthius aeralatus cameranoi (Salvadori, AT 1879) – [aeralatus Group]
  – highlands of Malaya (southern Perak to southern Selangor) and western Sumatra.
• Pteruthius aeralatus robinsoni (Chasen, FN; Kloss, CB 1931) – [aeralatus Group]
  – highlands of northern Borneo.
• Pteruthius aeralatus validirostris (Koelz, WN 1951) – White-browed Shrike-babbler (Chestnut-winged)
  – Himalayas (northern Pakistan to southern China, Assam, and northwestern Myanmar).
• Pteruthius aeralatus ricketti (Ogilvie-Grant, WR 1904) – White-browed Shrike-babbler (Grey-breasted)
  – northeastern Myanmar to southern China (including Hainan), northern Thailand, and northern Vietnam.
• Pteruthius aeralatus ripleyi (Biswas, B 1960) – White-browed Shrike-babbler (Himalayan)
  – Pakistan eastward to western Nepal.
• Pteruthius aeralatus annamensis (Robinson, HC; Kloss, CB 1919) – White-browed Shrike-babbler (Dalat)
  – southern Vietnam (Langbian Plateau).
  
  

Pteruthius aeralatus ssp. robinsoni
Date : 11 February 2025

Location : Gunung Alab Bird Watching Station, KM55 Jalan Penampang-Tambunan, 
Daerah Penampang, Bahagian Pantai Barat, Sabah

Pteruthius aeralatus ssp. robinsoni
Date : 18 February 2019

Location : Crocker Range National Park (Gunung Alab Substation), Daerah Penampang,
Bahagian Pantai Barat, Sabah

Pteruthius aeralatus ssp. robinsoni
Date : 18 February 2019

Location : Crocker Range National Park (Gunung Alab Substation), Daerah Penampang,
Bahagian Pantai Barat, Sabah

Pteruthius aeralatus ssp. robinsoni
Date : 11 February 2016

Location : Kinabalu Park, Ranau, Bahagian Pantai Barat, Sabah

Pteruthius aeralatus ssp. robinsoni
Date : 12 February 2016

Location : Kinabalu Park, Ranau, Bahagian Pantai Barat, Sabah