The Bhutan laughingthrush (''Trochalopteron imbricatum'') is a species of

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in the family Leiothrichidae. It is commonly found in

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

and some adjoining areas in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the

streaked laughingthrush The streaked laughingthrush (''Trochalopteron lineatum'') is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is commonly found in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent and some adjoining areas, ranging across Afghanistan, Bhutan, In ...

, ''G. lineatus'', hence its alternate

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of Himalayan streaked laughingthrush.

References

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