The rufous-capped babbler (''Cyanoderma ruficeps'') is a babbler species in the family
Timaliidae. It occurs from the
Eastern Himalayas to northern
Thailand,
Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
, eastern
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
to
Vietnam and
Taiwan. It inhabits
temperate forest with dense bushes or bamboo and is listed as
Least Concern on the
IUCN Red List.
It is pale olive with a bright rufous crown and nape, measures long and weighs .
''Stachyris ruficeps'' was the
scientific name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
proposed by
Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta.
Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 ...
in 1847 for an olive-coloured babbler with a ferruginous crown and a white throat collected in
Darjeeling.
It was later placed in the genus ''Stachyridopsis''.
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rufous-capped babbler
Birds of China
Birds of Eastern Himalaya
Birds of Hainan
Birds of Laos
Birds of Myanmar
Birds of Nepal
Birds of Taiwan
Birds of Vietnam
rufous-capped babbler
rufous-capped babbler
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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