Malacocincla perspicillata Bonaparte, 1850
Black-browed babbler, Black-browed jungle-babbler
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: between 1843 and 1848
Rediscovered on 5 October 2020 (audio recording) (Akbar et al., 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
The Black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata) was only known from a single specimen collected between the years 1843 and 1848 on Borneo. The exact locality where it was collected is unknown, but thought to be South Kalimintan, Indonesia. It was rediscovered in late 2020.
Distribution
Borneo (southern) (South Kalimintan, Indonesia?)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: RMNH 89412 (male)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bonaparte 1850 Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.257
Other references:
Akbar, Panji Gusti et al. (2020). Missing for 170 years—the rediscovery of Black-browed Babbler Malacocincla perspicillata on Borneo. BirdingASIA 34: 13-14.
Akbar, Panji Gusti et al. (2021). No longer an enigma: rediscovery of Black-browed Babbler Malacocincla perspicillata in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Journal of Asian Ornithology 37: 1-5.
BirdLife International. (2012). Malacocincla perspicillata. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2012.
Butchart, S. H. M.; Collar, N. J.; Crosby, M. J. & Tobias, J. A. (2005). Asian enigmas: "Lost" and poorly known birds: targets for birders in Asia. Birding Asia 3: 41-49.
Collar, Nigel J. (2014). Blue-wattled Bulbul Pycnonotus nieuwenhuisii and Black-browed Babbler Malacocincla perspicillata: two Sundaic passerines in search of a life. BirdingASIA 21: 37-44.
Hoogerwerf, A. (1966). Some notes on the genus Trichastoma especially on the validity of T. sepiarium mimus (=Malacocincla sepiaria minor) from east Java and about the status of T. vanderbilti and T. liberale from northern Sumatra. Misc. Rep. Yamashina Inst. Orn. 4: 294-301.
Mees, G. F. (1995). On Malacocincla vanderbilti de Schauensee and Ripley, and Malacocincla perspicillata (Bonaparte) (Aves, Timaliidae). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. 98: 63-68.
Williams, Robert S. R. (2002). The rediscovery and doubtful validity of the Blue-wattled Bulbul Pycnonotus nieuwenhuisii. Forktail 18: 107-109.