• In the 1840s, a mystery bird was caught on an expedition to the East Indies. Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon, described it to science and named it the black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata).

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• Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Its status is insufficiently known.
• It was formerly classified as a Vulnerable by the IUCN.
• But new research has shown the lack of reliable information, while on the other hand some conjectural     assumptions have been gleaned from the specimen,         opening up new lines of research.
• Consequently, its status is changed to Data Deficient in 2008.
• It is threatened by agriculture, logging even within protected areas, plantations for rubber and palm oil and drought fires.
• There is risk of near complete loss of dryland lowland forest in Kalimantan within the next few years
• In October 2020, the species was rediscovered in South Kalimantan by two local men, Muhammad Suranto and Muhammad Rizky Fauzan, 170 years after the last confirmed sighting.