Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Pin-striped / Striped Tit-babbler

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Pin-striped / Striped Tit-babbler

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Timaliidae (Scimitar-babblers and allies)

Pin-striped Tit-babbler /
Striped Tit-babbler

Mixorni gularis

纹胸巨鹛 (wén-xiōng jù-méi)

Malay : Kekicau-Berjalur Biasa

Japanese : ムナフムシクイチメドリ (muna-fu mushi-kui chime-dori)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 胸斑虫喰知目鳥

  Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 11,000,000km²
  Migratory Status : Not a Migrant
  Breeding Endemic : No

Size : 11–14 cm; 10–14 g

Subspecies (14) and Distribution

EBIRD GROUP (POLYTYPIC)

Pin-striped Tit-Babbler (Pin-striped) Mixornis gularis [gularis Group]

Mixornis gularis rubicapilla (Tickell, 1833, 'jungles of Borabhum and Dholbhum' [= Manbhum and Singhbhum Districts, Bihar])
– Nepal, Bhutan, N, NE and EC India (and disjunctly in S Karnataka) and Bangladesh.
Mixornis gularis ticehursti (Stresemann, 1940, Dudaw Taung [lat. 21° 05' N., long. 94° 19' E.], Burma)
– W and SW Myanmar.
Mixornis gularis sulphurea (Rippon, 1900, Nammehet [lat. 20° 26' N., long. 97° 28' E.] , Southern Shan State)
– N, E (except extreme E part) and SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), NW and W Thailand and S China (SW Yunnan).
Mixornis gularis lutescens (Delacour, 1926, Bao Ha [lat. 22° 10' N., long. 104° 21' E.], Tongking)
– NE Myanmar, extreme NW and NE Thailand, S China (SE Yunnan, SW Guangxi), Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin, N Annam).
Mixornis gularis saraburiensis (Deignan, 1956, Sathani Hin Lap [lat. 14° 40' N., long. 101° 10' E.], Thailand)
– EC Thailand and W Cambodia.
Mixornis gularis kinneari (Delacour & Jabouille, 1924, Hai Lang [lat. 16° 42' N., long. 107° 16' E.], Annam)
– C Vietnam (C Annam).
Mixornis gularis versuricola (Oberholser, 1922, Da Ban [lat. 12° 38' N., long. 109° 06' E.], Annam)
– E Cambodia and S Vietnam (S Annam, Cochinchina).
Mixornis gularis connectens (Kloss, 1918, 'about Lat. 10° N. [Malay Peninsula])
– extreme S Myanmar (S Tenasserim) and adjacent SW, SC and SE Thailand.
Mixornis gularis inveterata (Oberholser, 1922, Ko Kut [lat. 11° 40' N., long. 102° 35' E.], Thailand)
– coastal islands off SE Thailand and adjacent Cambodia.
Mixornis gularis condorensis (Robinson, 1921, Pulau Kondor, off the mouths of the Mekong)
– Con Son I, off S Vietnam.
Mixornis gularis archipelagica (Oberholser, 1922, Domel Island, Mergui Archipelago, off southern Tenasserim)
– Mergui Archipelago, off SW Tenasserim (Myanmar).
Mixornis gularis chersonesophila (Oberholser, 1922, Trang Province, Thailand)
– S Thailand and N Peninsular Malaysia.
Mixornis gularis gularis (Horsfield, 1822, Sumatra)
– S Peninsular Malaysia S to Sumatra (including Banyak Is and Batu Is).