OTHER COMMON NAMES English: Malaysian rail-babbler; French: Eupète à longue queue; German: Rallenläufer; Spanish: Hablantín Malayo.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS 11.4 in (29 cm). Brownish plumage with black legs and bill, white brow stripe and black eye stripe, sometimes with bluish stripe underneath.
DISTRIBUTION E. m. macrocerus: Peninsular Thailand and Malaysia, Sumatra;E. m. borneensis: Borneo. Lives up to 3,300 ft (1,000 m).
HABITAT Broad-leaved evergreen forest in lowland and hills.
BEHAVIOR Very shy. Drawn-out monotone whistle heard much more than bird is seen. Walks on forest floor, jerking head like chicken; runs with great speed, holding the head up and the tail depressed.
FEEDING ECOLOGY AND DIET Eats insects and other small ground invertebrates.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY Breeds JanuaryJuly, laying two eggs.
CONSERVATION STATUS Scarce to locally fairly common resident. Considered Near Threatened by the IUCN and Birdlife International owing to extensive logging in parts of its range.
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