From Opus
- Rimator malacoptilus
[edit] Identification
11-13cm. A small, almost tailless streaky brown babbler:
- Very long, slightly downcurving bill
- Brown crown, nape and head side with tiny buff shaft streaks and narrow black scaling
- Long brown dorsal feathering with long buff shaft streaks
- Plain fluffy rump
- Plain brown (chestnut in nominate, dark brown in other subspecies) upperwing and tail
- Buff chin and throat and dark brown moustachial streak and malar stripe
- Breast and belly brown with buff whitish shaft streaks
Sexes similar. Juveniles undescribed.
[edit] Distribution
Found from Sikkim east over Bhutan and northeast India to northern Burma and adjacent south China (Yunnan).
Rarely recorded in its range.
[edit] Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Has been considered conspecific with White-throated Wren-Babbler and Sumatran Wren-Babbler in the past.
[edit] Habitat
Broadleaf evergreen forest. At 900 - 2000m in the Indian Subcontinent.
[edit] Behaviour
Feeds on invertebrates.
Usually seen in pairs, skulking in undergrowth on or near the ground.
Breeding season from May to July in India. The nest is a loose untidy globe with a top entrance, made of leaves, grasses, roots, bracken fronds and weed stems. It's placed on the ground in a mass of dead leaves at the foot of a large tree. Lays 4 eggs.
Resident species.
[edit] References
- Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
- 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
- Rasmussen, PC and JC Anderton. 2005. Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334672
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