Sooty puppet's name. He would later be joined by other puppet glove characters, including Sweep (a dog who communicates by a saxophone reed type squeak), Soo (a shy and sweetly spoken panda), Kipper (a cat), Butch (another dog who occasionally plays the part of a villain), Ramsbottom (a snake), 'Enry the Robot, Cousin Scampi (another bear, who is Sooty's cousin), Miki (another cat - this time Brazilian) and Maggie Mouse. Like Sooty, Scampi appears to talk only in a very light whisper which can be heard only when someone puts their ear close to his mouth. Matthew Corbett, the son of
Sooty barbthroat leucurus" distinct species, because of insufficient published evidence for their being conspecific. This "combined" species is considered to be of Least Concern by the IUCN. In addition, some suggest that the bronze-tailed barbthroat ("T. n. loehkeni") should also be considered a valid species and include the doubtful Christina's barbthroat ("T. n. christinae") as a subspecies. Freire's sooty barbthroat ("T. n. freirei") is intermediate between the sooty and bronze-tailed barbthroats however, and thus its status needs to be clarified before the situation is resolved. Sooty barbthroat The sooty barbthroat ("Threnetes niger") is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae. It is