Gray-breasted Babbler

SCI Name:  Malacopteron albogulare
Protonym:  S[etaria]. albogularis J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 13 p.385
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Malacopteron
Taxonomy Code:  gybbab1
Type Locality:  'Singapore.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

MALACOPTERON
(Pellorneidae; Ϯ Rufous-crowned Babbler M. magnum) Gr. μαλακος malakos  soft; πτερον pteron  feather; "Genus MALACOPTERON, n.g.  Rostrum fere capiti æquale, altius quam latum, ad apicem incisum, ultraque nares compressum, ad basim setis armatum; mandibula inferiore ad basim tumida.  Tarsi mediocres; digiti externi vix longiores quam interni, posteriores medios æquantes; ungues compressi posteriores longissimi; scuta tarsi vix divisa.  Alæ breves, rotundatæ; pennis secondariis primarias fere æquantibus; prima pennarum spuria, secunda breviore tertia, quæ longissima est.  Cauda paucarum pennarum composita, rotundata; tectricibus superioribus mollibus et longis.   Obs. This genus is allied to Microtarsus in some particulars and to Brachipus in others: it agrees with both in the soft and downy nature of the tail coverts.    MALACOPTERON MAGNUM.  ...  Native name, Burong Map.    MALACOPTERON CINEREUS.  ...  Native name, Merfa." (Eyton 1839); "Malacopteron Eyton, 1839, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 7, p. 102. Type, by subsequent designation (Strickland, 1844, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 13, p. 417), Malacopteron magnum Eyton." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 262).
Var. Malacopterum, Melanopteron.
Synon. Horizillas, Malacornis, Ophrydornis, Setaria.

albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.

SUBSPECIES

Gray-breasted Babbler (albogulare)
SCI Name: Malacopteron albogulare albogulare
albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.

Gray-breasted Babbler (moultoni)
SCI Name: Malacopteron albogulare moultoni
moultoni
Maj. John Coney Moulton (1886-1926) British Army, ornithologist, entomolgist, Curator of Sarawak Mus. 1905-1915, Director of Raffles Mus., Singapore 1919-1923 (subsp. Chlorocharis emiliae, subsp. Malacopteron albogulare).