| Spot-breasted Laughingthrush | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae |
| Genus: | Stactocichla |
| Species: | S. merulina |
| Binomial name | |
| Stactocichla merulina (Blyth, 1851) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Garrulax merulinus |
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The Spot-breasted Laughingthrush (Stactocichla merulina or Garrulax merulinus) is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in south-west China, north-east India, Laos, Myanmar, north-west Thailand, and northern Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The Orange-breasted Laughingthrush (S. annamensis) of south-central Vietnam was formerly regarded as a subspecies of this bird but is now often treated as a separate species.