Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes and allies)

Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush

Pterorhinus treacheri

栗冠噪鹛 (lì-guàn zào-méi)

    Malay : Kekicau-Raya Borneo

    Japanese : ボルネオチャガシラガビチョウ (boruneo cha-gashira gabi-chō)
    Kanji 日語漢字 : ボルネオ茶頭画眉鳥

Taxonomy update for 2021

Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush : Ianthocincla treacheri ➜ Pterorhinus treacheri

    Size : 22-24 cm

    Subspecies (3) and Distribution

• Pterorhinus treacheri treacheri (Sharpe, RB 1879)
  – N Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu).
• Pterorhinus treacheri damnatus (Harrisson, TH; Hartley, CH 1934)
  – Mountains of e Sarawak (Mt. Dulit, Mt. Derian, Kelabit Plateau).
• Pterorhinus treacheri griswoldi (Peters, JL 1940)
  – highlands of central Borneo (Schwaner and Müller mountains); a population in the Meratus Mountains, South Kalimantan, Borneo probably is an undescribed subspecies

Pterorhinus treacheri ssp. treacheri

Date : 18 February 2019

Location : Crocker Range National Park (Gunung Alab Substation), Tambunan,
Bahagian Pedalaman, Sabah