Nilgiri Laughingthrush
Montecincla cachinnans(Jerdon, TC, 1839)
English (US) Nilgiri Laughingthrush
The Nilgiri Laughingthrush (Montecincla cachinnans) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Leiothrichidae (Laughingthrushes and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: southwestern peninsular India (Nilgiri Hills in western Tamil Nadu)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Montecincla cachinnans
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Nilgiri Laughingthrush
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1839)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- C[rateropus] cachinnans
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1839)
- Type locality
- Nilgiri Hills.
- Original description
- Madras Journal of Literature and Science 10, no.25 p.255 pl.7
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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