Birds Thru My Eyes : CHINA / HONG KONG: Plain Prinia

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Order - Passeriformes 雀形目
Family - Cisticolidae 扇尾莺科 (Cisticolas and allies)
Genus - Prinia 鹪莺属

Plain Prinia

Prinia inornata

纯色鹪莺 / 褐头鹪莺

Size : 11 cm; 6–9 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Prinia inornata terricolor (A. O. Hume, 1874)
– extreme E Afghanistan (Jalalabad) and W Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and fringes of Baluchistan) E over NW India (E to Vadodara) to SW Nepal.
Prinia inornata inornata (Sykes, 1832)
– C & SE India (S from Gangetic Plain).
Prinia inornata franklinii (Blyth, 1844)
– SW India (S Karnataka, Kerala, W Tamil Nadu).
Prinia inornata insularis (Legge, 1879)
– Sri Lanka.
Prinia inornata fusca (Hodgson, 1845)
– lowlands of Nepal E to Bhutan, Bangladesh, NE India (E to Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur) and SW Myanmar.
Prinia inornata blanfordi (Walden, 1875)
– NC & E Myanmar, NW Thailand and S China (W Yunnan).
Prinia inornata extensicauda (Swinhoe, 1860)
– S & E China (N & E Yunnan, W Sichuan E to Jiangxi and Zhejiang, also Hainan) S to N Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin).
Prinia inornata flavirostris (Swinhoe, 1863)
– Taiwan.
Prinia inornata herberti (E. C. S. Baker, 1918)
– S Myanmar (Tenasserim), C & E Thailand, Cambodia, C & S Laos and C & S Vietnam.
Prinia inornata blythi (Bonaparte, 1850)
– Java.