Hispanopedia WikiThe pin-striped tit-babbler (Mixornis gularis), also known as the yellow-breasted babbler, is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae that is found in South and Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy and systematics
The pin-striped tit-babbler was formally described in 1822 by the American naturalist Thomas Horsfield based on a specimen collected in Sumatra. He coined the binomial nameTimalia gularis.[2][3] The pin-striped tit-babbler was formerly placed in the genus Macronus but based on the results of a large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2019,[4] the species was moved to the genus Mixornis that had been introduced in 1842 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth.[5][6] The genus name combines the Ancient Greekmixis meaning "mixed" or "mingling" with ornis meaning "bird". The specific epithet gularis is Modern Latin meaning "-throated".[7] The pin-striped tit-babbler belongs within a clade that includes the genera Dumetia and Timalia.[4]
The species has also been split following a study by Nigel Collar to distinguish the morphologically distinct Bornean and Javan populations, which have since been renamed the bold-striped tit-babbler (Mixornis bornensis), from the rest of the pin-striped tit-babbler species complex.[8]
The following 13 subspecies are recognized:[6]
- M. g. rubicapilla ( Tickell , 1833) – Nepal, Bután y noreste de la India hasta Bangladesh y el centro-este de la India
- Mg. ticehursti Stresemann , 1940 – oeste de Myanmar
- M. g. sulphureus (Rippon, 1900) – este de Myanmar, oeste de Tailandia y suroeste de Yunnan (sur de China)
- M. g. lutescens Delacour , 1926 – sureste de Yunnan (sur de China), norte y noreste de Tailandia y norte de Indochina.
- M. g. kinneari Delacour & Jabouille , 1924 – centro de Vietnam
- Mg. saraburiensis ( Deignan , 1956): centro-este de Tailandia y Camboya occidental
- M. g. versuricola Oberholser , 1922 – este de Camboya y sur de Vietnam
- M. g. condorensis Robinson , 1921 – Isla Con Son (frente al sur de Vietnam)
- M. g. connectens ( Kloss , 1918) – Tenasserim (sureste de Myanmar), costa del Golfo de Tailandia hasta la península malaya central (incluye chersonesophilus ) [ 9 ]
- M. g. archipelagicus Oberholser, 1922 – Archipiélago de Mergui (frente al suroeste de Myanmar)
- M. g. inveteratus Oberholser, 1922 – islas costeras del sureste de Tailandia y Camboya
- M. g. gularis ( Horsfield , 1822) – sur de la península malaya, Sumatra, islas Banyak (al oeste del norte de Sumatra) e islas Batu (al oeste del centro de Sumatra)
- Mg. woodi Sharpe , 1877 – Grupo Palawan (suroeste de Filipinas)
Descripción
La especie tiene una ceja distintiva de color amarillento y una corona rojiza. La garganta es amarillenta con vetas marrones. Su canto es un fuerte y repetido " chonk-chonk-chonk-chonk-chonk" que recuerda un poco al de un sastre común .
Buscan alimento en pequeños grupos y se arrastran y trepan entre la vegetación baja. Se reproducen en la temporada previa al monzón, de febrero a julio, y construyen un nido suelto en forma de bola con hierbas y hojas.
Distribución
La especie está ampliamente distribuida y se encuentra en Bangladesh , Bután , Brunéi , Camboya , China , India , Indonesia , Laos , Malasia , Myanmar , Nepal , Filipinas , Singapur , Tailandia y Vietnam . [ 1 ]
In India, there are disjunct populations in southern India. This population was recorded by Salim Ali from Antharasanthe near the Kabini reservoir. There were no records of the species from this area after the initial collection. The southern population was rediscovered from the Masinagudi area in Mudumalai in 2004.[10]
Other populations are found in the northern Eastern Ghats.
References
- 12BirdLife International. (2024). "Mixornis gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024 e.T22735162A264167049. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22735162A264167049.en. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
- ↑Horsfield, Thomas (1822). Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands. London: Printed for Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen. Part 3. Plate [43], fig. 2, text.
- ↑Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 321.
- 12Cai, T.; Cibois, A.; Alström, P.; Moyle, R.G.; Kennedy, J.D.; Shao, S.; Zhang, R.; Irestedt, M.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Gelang, M.; Qu, Y.; Lei, F.; Fjeldså, J. (2019). "Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 346–356. Bibcode:2019MolPE.130..346C. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010. PMID 30321696.
- ↑Blyth, Edward (1842). "Report from the curator". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 11, Part 2 (128): 788-799 [794, note].
- 12Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Babblers & fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ↑Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 257, 181. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑Collar, N.J. (2006). "A partial revision of the Asian babblers (Timaliidae)". Forktail. 22: 85–112.
- ↑Cros, E.; Rheindt, F.E. (2017). "Massive bioacoustic analysis suggests introgression across Pleistocene land bridges in Mixornis tit-babblers". Journal of Ornithology. 158 (2): 407–419. Bibcode:2017JOrni.158..407C. doi:10.1007/s10336-016-1411-x.
- ↑Praveen J.; Job K. Joseph; Nick Lethaby (2004). "Sighting of Yellow-breasted Babbler Macronous gularis in South India"(PDF). Newsletter for Ornithologists. 1 (3): 43. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2006-09-17.
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Mixornis
- Birds of Nepal
- Birds of India
- Birds of Eastern Himalaya
- Birds of Bangladesh
- Birds of Yunnan
- Birds of Southeast Asia
- Birds of Palawan
- Birds described in 1822
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