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and fragmented habitat, and the restricted range 
suggest the critical vulnerability of the Snowy¬ 
cheeked Laughingthrush. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
We are grateful to staff members of our research group 
and the Lianhuashan Natural Reserve, including Y.-X. 
Jiang, J.-L. Li, Y.-S. Zhang, X.-S. Liu, P.-P. Luo, and H.-Z. 
Chang for field assistance. We sincerely thank two 
anonymous reviewers, C. E. Braun, Gang Song, and J.-Z. 
Chen for comments on the manuscript, and Dan Strickland 
for help with English. Financial support was provided by 
the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant kscx2-yw-z-1021) 
and the National Natural Science Foundation of China 
(Grant 30620130110). 
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