| Sooty-capped Babbler | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae |
| Genus: | Malacopteron |
| Species: | M. affine |
| Binomial name | |
| Malacopteron affine (Blyth, 1842) |
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The Sooty-capped Babbler Malacopteron affine is an Old World babbler. The Old World babblers are a large family of Old World passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia.
The Sooty-capped Babbler is also known in Malay as Rimba Tinjau Belukar. Its main diet is small insects.