Bar-winged wren-babbler

Bar-winged wren-babbler
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Timaliidae
Genus:	Spelaeornis
Species:	S. troglodytoides
Binomial name
Spelaeornis troglodytoides (Verreaux, 1871)
Synonyms
Pnoepyga troglodytoides

The bar-winged wren-babbler (Spelaeornis troglodytoides) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, and Myanmar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. ^[1]

Spelaeornis troglodytoides souliei Oustalet, 1898

There are variations among the populations and three subspecies are named.

• sherriffi Kinnear, 1934 from eastern Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh
• indiraji Ripley et al., 1991 from Arunachal Pradesh (Namdapha National Park) which is named after Indira Gandhi. ^[2]
• souliei Oustalet, 1898 - northern Arunachal Pradesh (NE India) Myanmar and S China

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Spelaeornis troglodytoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T22716123A132110475. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22716123A132110475.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. Ripley, SD; SS Saha & B M Beehler (1991). "Notes on birds from the Upper Noa Dihing, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeastern India". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 111 (1): 19–28.

• Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World , Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.