Silver-eared laughingthrush

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Silver-eared Laughingthrush.jpg

| image_caption = Doi Inthanon, Chiang Mai, Thailand

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Trochalopteron melanostigma |volume=2016 |page=e.T22734488A95087526 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22734488A95087526.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| taxon = Trochalopteron melanostigma

| authority = (Blyth, 1855)

| synonyms =

• Garrulax erythrocephalus melanostigma
• Garrulax melanostigma

}}

The silver-eared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron melanostigma) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in southern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the chestnut-crowned laughingthrush, G. erythrocephalus.