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Trochalopteron melanostigma
Range
Southern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (per Wikipedia; India not listed)
The silver-eared laughingthrush, Trochalopteron melanostigma, is a bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It was described by Blyth in 1855 and was formerly considered a subspecies of the chestnut-crowned laughingthrush (Wikipedia, general species account).
The cached account gives its range as southern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and does not mention India, so its place on the Indian list should be checked. The account gives no detail on diet, breeding or habitat (Wikipedia, general species account).