Sri Lanka Scimitar-Babbler

The Sri Lanka scimitar-babbler, or Ceylon scimitar babbler, is an Old World babbler endemic to Sri Lanka, formerly treated as a subspecies of the Indian scimitar babbler. The nominate form is found in the western part of the wet hill regions and the race holdsworthi in the dry lowlands and eastern hills (Wikipedia, species account).

Sinhala speakers call most scimitar babblers parandel kurulla, roughly dried-grass-coloured bird. It appears on a 4.50 rupee Sri Lankan stamp. Nationally Least Concern (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012).