Spot-breasted scimitar babbler

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Pomatorhinus mcclellandi.jpg

| image_caption = at Khonoma, Nagaland

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Erythrogenys mcclellandi |volume=2016 |page=e.T22734503A95088052 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22734503A95088052.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Erythrogenys

| species = mcclellandi

| authority = (Godwin-Austen, 1870)

}}

The spot-breasted scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys mcclellandi) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae.

It is found in Eastern Himalaya and western Myanmar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by the bioaccumulation of mercury in its features.{{Cite journal|last=Xu|first=Zhidong|last2=Abeysinghe|first2=Kasun S.|last3=Xu|first3=Xiaohang|last4=Gu|first4=Chunhao|last5=Liang|first5=Longchao|last6=Lu|first6=Qinhui|last7=Zhang|first7=Yubo|last8=Zheng|first8=Lirong|last9=Wang|first9=Wen-Xiong|last10=Qiu|first10=Guangle|date=2019-06-01|title=New insights into the chemical forms of extremely high methylmercury in songbird feathers from a contaminated site|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653519304965|journal=Chemosphere|language=en|volume=225|pages=803–809|doi=10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.03.060|issn=0045-6535|doi-access=free}}