Yellow-eyed Babbler

The yellow-eyed babbler is a babbler about 18cm long with a short black bill and a long graduated tail, the central feathers about twice as long as the outer ones. It is brown above with cinnamon wings and whitish-buff below, with white lores and eyebrow and an orange-yellow eye-ring in adults. The sexes look alike. Populations differ in plumage and bill shape, the Sri Lankan race having black nostrils and a stouter bill. Its genus is now grouped with the parrotbills rather than the Old World babblers (Wikipedia, general species account).

Three subspecies are recognised (Wikipedia, general species account).