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Cibodas Botanic Garden, Java, Indonesia, October 2005

Alternative name: Chestnut-fronted Shrike-Babbler

Pteruthius aenobarbus

[edit] Identification

11.5 cm. A small Shrike-Babbler:

• White eye-ring
• Broad white wing-bars (rufous-buff in female)
• Male with chestnut forehead bordered above by yellow and a dark chestnut throat
• Female is whitish below with yellowish vent and belly and diffuse chestnut on upper throat and forehead

Juveniles not described

[edit] Similar species

Black-eared Shrike-Babbler is very similar but has a blackish rear border behind the yellow ear-coverts.

[edit] Distribution

Java.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

Split from Chestnut-fronted Shrike-Babbler^[4]

Like all species of this genus most probably not a babbler but belonging to the Vireos.

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes and lowland forests. Found at 1000 - 3000 m.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on cockroaches, caterpillars and other insects, takes also fruit.

Usually seen singly and in pairs, outside breeding season in small groups, often in mixed flocks. Movements sluggish and slow.

Breeding season May to June. The nest is a shallow cup, hidden with moss and spider webs and suspended from a high branch fork of tree. Lays 2 eggs.

Resident species.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. 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
3. Rasmussen, PC and JC Anderton. 2005. Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334672
4. Rheindt & Eaton 2009. Species limits in Pteruthius (Aves: Corvida) shrike-babblers: a comparison between the Biological and Phylogenetic Species Concepts. Zootaxa 2301: 29–54.

• List of references

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