Malayan black-capped babbler

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| image = Pellorneum nigrocapitatum nigrocapitatum 232080931 (cropped).jpg

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| genus = Pellorneum

| species = nigrocapitatum

| authority = (Eyton, 1839)

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The Malayan black-capped babbler (Pellorneum nigrocapitatum) is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.

It is found on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka Island, Belitung and North Natuna. This species, the Javan black-capped babbler (P. capistratum) and the Bornean black-capped babbler (P. capistratoides) were formerly considered conspecific, but were split from it in 2021.{{Cite web|title=Species Updates – IOC World Bird List|url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/updates/species-updates/|access-date=2021-05-28}} Together they were called the black-capped babbler. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.