Sabine's puffback ( ; ''Dryoscopus sabini''), also known as the large-billed puffback, is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family Malaconotidae. It is native to the African tropical rainforest (

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and sparsely throughout

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). Its natural

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland

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s and subtropical or tropical

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s. Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate lawyer and naturalist

Joseph Sabine Joseph Sabine FRS ( ; 6 June 1770 – 24 January 1837) was an English lawyer, naturalist and writer on horticulture. Life and work Sabine was born into a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Tewin, Hertfordshire, the eldest son of Joseph Sabine. ...

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