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 Sooty barbthroat The sooty barbthroat ("Threnetes niger") is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae. It is found in French Guiana and the northeastern part of the Amazon Basin. Its natural habitat is humid tropical lowland forest. The taxonomy and systematics of the sooty/pale-tailed barbthroat complex has caused much confusion. Some authors consider the sooty barbthroat to be a melanistic variant of the pale-tailed barbthroat ("T. leucurus"). As "T. niger" was described first, this scientific name is the valid name for both when they are considered conspecific. On the other hand, the SACC for example considers "T. niger" and "T.