The Sooty-capped Babbler Malacopteron affine is an Old World babbler. The Old World babblers are a large family of Old World passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia.

The Sooty-capped Babbler is also known in Malay as Rimba Tinjau Belukar. Its main diet is small insects.

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