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Editor’s Letter iii
PANJI GUSTI AKBAR, TEGUH WILLY NUGROHO, MUHAMMAD SURANTO, MUHAMMAD RIZKY FAUZAN, DODDY FERDIANSYAH, JOKO SAID TRISIYANTO & DING LI YONG
No longer an enigma: rediscovery of Black-browed Babbler Malacocincla perspicillata in Kalimantan, Indonesia 1
RICHARD W. LEWTHWAITE, FEI LI & BOSCO P. L. CHAN
An annotated checklist of the birds of Hainan Island, China 6
CHRIS R. SHEPHERD & BOYD T.C. LEUPEN
Incidence of protected and illegally sourced birds at bird markets in Makassar, Sulawesi 29
ALBAN GUILLAUMET, YE GONG & HAI-TAO WANG
Distribution and habitat use of reed warblers and grass warblers in North-East China 34
LAURA MARIE BERMAN, YONG CHEE KEITA SIN & FRANK E. RHEINDT
Overturning more than a century of mistaken notions on the plumage of sub-adult Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus 44
CHRIS GIBBINS
Dark-winged Black-headed Gulls Chroicocephalus ridibundus and their separation from Brown-headed Gulls C. brunnicephalus and hybrids 48
PRACHI MEHTA, AKSHAY VINOD ANAND, S. SANGEETH SAILAS & JAYANT KULKARNI
Investigating reversed sexual size dimorphism in the Endangered Forest Owlet Athene (Heteroglaux) blewitti 60
W. D. S. C. DHARMARATHNE & W. A. D. MAHAULPATHA
Breeding biology of the endemic Dull-blue Flycatcher Eumyias sordidus in Sri Lanka 66
JIA JIE LI, HUI ZHEN TAN, YAN RU CHOO & FRANK E. RHEINDT
Vocal frequency changes vary in response to noise pollution across a suite of urban birds 73
SEBASTIAN STEIBL & CHRISTIAN LAFORSCH
The importance of the Maldives as a wintering ground for migratory birds of the Central Asian flyway 80
MOHD IQBAL HAZIQ MAT NAWI, AHMAD SYAKIR SULAIMI, AMERA NATASHA MAH MUHAMMAD ADAM MAH, MOHAMED ZAKARIA & CHONG LEONG PUAN
Pair duets and acoustic sexing of Reddish Scops Owl Otus rufescens 88
LISA J. PAGUNTALAN, ANDREW ROSS T. REINTAR & PHILIP GODFREY C. JAKOSALEM
Population density of Visayan Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides panini on Negros Island, Philippines 93
LISA J. PAGUNTALAN, MARIA FELIZA JANET M. OQUENDO, BERNARD A. BONARES & GAUDENCIO M. VILLEGAS
Ecology of Philippine Scrubfowl Megapodius cumingii on Palawan with notes on other islands 99
Journal of Asian Ornithology instructions to authors 107
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