White-cheeked Laughingthrush
Pterorhinus vassali (Ogilvie-Grant, 1906)
Leiothrichidae — Laughingthrushes & Allies
White-cheeked Laughingthrush, Pterorhinus vassali, is a passerine in the laughingthrush family and breeds in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. It occurs in moist lowland forest and moist montane forest across that part of the Oriental Region. The species was described by Ogilvie-Grant in 1906. It was once included in Garrulax, but a 2018 molecular study led to its transfer to Pterorhinus.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Leiothrichidae — Laughingthrushes & Allies
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
