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The species Black-browed Babbler is possibly extinct.

Malacocincla perspicillata

[edit] Identification

15 - 16cm. Only known from one specimen:

• Drab brown crown
• Broad brownish-black supercilium
• Dull rufous-brown upperparts
• Lores whitish with blackish area in front of eye
• Pale grey cheek and ear-coverts
• Whitish chin and throat
• Grey breast with narrow whitish streaks
• Dull rufous-brown on flanks
• Rather long hooked bill
• Dull brown legs

[edit] Distribution

Southern Borneo, Indonesia. Known from a single 19th-century specimen. The specimen was most likely collected around Martapura between 1843 and 1848. All lowland forest around Martapura has now disappeared .

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.
Sometimes thought to be a local subspecies of Horsfield's Babbler but now widely accepted as full species.

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests.

[edit] Behaviour

No information about diet or breeding. Feeds probably on small invertebrates.

[edit] References

1. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422

• List of references

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