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Chin Hills Wren-Babbler
Spelaeornis oatesi (Rippon, 1904)
Timaliidae — Babblers, Scimitar Babblers
Chin Hills Wren-Babbler, Spelaeornis oatesi, is a passerine in the babbler family and breeds in south-east Assam and western Myanmar. It is a bird of the Oriental Region, where it lives in moist montane forest. Rippon described it in 1904. For a time it was treated as part of the long-tailed wren-babbler, but it is now recognised as a separate species. Its range lies in India and Myanmar, and it is listed by the IUCN as Least Concern.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Timaliidae — Babblers, Scimitar Babblers
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: se Assam and w Myanmar
