Rufous-fronted babbler
(Khướu bụt trán hung, Cyanoderma rufifrons)
Once placed in Stachyris, and Stachyridopsis
The rufous-fronted babbler (Cyanoderma rufifrons) is a babbler species in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae.
This bird species is found in the Eastern Himalayan foothills, Myanmar, Thailand, northern Indochina and south to the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
The Buff-chested babbler (Khướu bụi đầu hung, Cyanoderma ambiguum) is now subsumed into this species.
Timaliidae, Timalia: The word "Timalo" originates in the Greek "Thimalos", which means "bird". This Greek root was adapted to Latin as "Timalus" and later to Portuguese as "Timalo".
The name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with derma meaning "skin".
The specific epithet rufifrons is modern Latin meaning "red-fronted", from Latin rufus meaning "red" or "rufous" and frons, frontis meaning "forehead" or "brow".