The white-browed fulvetta (Fulvetta vinipectus) is a bird species in the family Sylviidae.

The white-browed fulvetta (Fulvetta vinipectus) is a bird species in the family Sylviidae. Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus Alcippe.

10·5–12 cm; 9–13 g. Small fulvetta in soft rich browns and ochrous-buffs with (usually) pale eye in dark mask and bold white supercilium. Nominate race has forehead, crown and nape warm brown with slight greyish tinge, bordered by blackish-brown lateral crownstripe above white supercilium from above eye to above ear-coverts; mantle and neck side paler and greyer than crown, scapulars, rump and uppertail-coverts dull rufescent brown; flight-feathers dark brown, outer fringes of upperwing-coverts, tertials and secondaries rufous, outer fringes of inner secondaries stony grey; uppertail dark grey-brown, outer fringes of feathers dull rufescent basally (as rump); lores and cheek blackish-brown, ear-coverts as crown, submoustachial area white with brown stippling; chin, throat and upper breast white (sometimes with very vague pinkish-grey streaking), shading to pale pinkish-tinged or purplish-tinged grey on breast, upper belly and upper flanks, rest of underparts pale dull buff; iris white to dark brown (varying partially with race); upper mandible horn-brown to blackish-brown, lower mandible pinkish-grey; legs dark olive-brown to pale fleshy-plumbeous. 


Sexes similar. Juvenile is rustier above than adult, with lateral crownstripes less distinct, flanks paler. Races differ mainly in plumage tone and pattern, all those E from E Himalayas having supercilium extending forwards to upper bill base: kangrae has crown and nape warmer brown than nominate, forehead paler and greyer, chin to breast cleaner and clearer, area on neck side and upper flanks pinker; ripponi resembles previous but crown and mantle browner and less rusty, upperparts a shade darker, area behind ear-coverts paler,
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