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The Malaysian Rail-babbler Eupetes macrocerus is a strange rail-like piedly-coloured inhabitant of the floor of primary forest in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra (nominate macrocerus), as well as Borneo (ssp. borneensis), distantly related to Australian crow-like birds. It has strongly decreased because much of the lowland primary forest has been cut, and secondary forest usually have too dense a bottom vegetation or do not offer enough shade to be favourable for the species. Locally still common in logged forest or on hill-forest on slopes, and probably not in immediate danger of extinction.
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