Tawny-bellied babbler (Dumetia hyperythra)

The tawny-bellied babbler also known in older Indian works as the rufous-bellied babbler is a small babbler that forages in groups in low scrub forests. Like other members of the large Old World babbler family they are passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. Found in small groups that skulk inside scrub, three subspecies are recognized in South Asia. The nominate ''hyperythra'' and ''albogularis'' found in India and ''phillipsi'' of Sri Lanka