Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla Scientific name definitions

10.5–11 cm; 8–10 g. Small, soft-colored fulvetta. Nominate subspecies has forehead mid-gray, shading to dull vinous-rufous on crown, becoming pinkish-gray on nape, neck side and mantle, and warm ochrous-brown on back, rump and uppertail-coverts; outer fringes of upperwing-coverts, tertials, secondaries and outer tail rufous-ochre, upperwing and tail plain mid-brown, primaries showing narrow gray wingpanel between pale brown outer feathers and brown inner feathers; lores blackish, this color running up in front of eye to become narrow dark lateral crownstripe, bordered below by increasingly broad pale gray supercilium; submoustachial area, area below eye and ear-coverts pale vinous-pinkish; throat whitish with mid-grayish streaks extending onto upper breast; upper flanks and across breast pale pinkish-gray, middle belly whitish, lower flanks and vent rufous-ochre; iris dark brown, whitish eyering broken at rear; bill gray-brown, lower mandible paler; legs dark brown. Sexes similar. Juvenile presumably resembles adult. Subspecies sordidior has crown a little less reddish, ear-coverts a little paler, lateral crownstripes broader, blacker and longer (extending to rear of nape), mid-belly tinged buff, lower flanks and undertail-coverts paler and buffier, less rufous.

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Formerly treated as conspecific with Indochinese Fulvetta (Fulvetta danisi). Birds recorded in southern China (Yunnan and Guizhou) probably belong in Spectacled Fulvetta on basis of range, but not yet compared with type of Indochinese Fulvetta . Two subspecies recognized.

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