Pygmy Cupwing / Wren-babbler

Order - Passeriformes 雀形目
Family - Pnoepygidae 鹪鹛科 (Cupwings)
Genus - Pnoepyga 鹪鹛属

Pygmy Cupwing /
Pygmy Wren-babbler

Pnoepyga pusilla

小鳞胸鹪鹛

    Size : 7.5–9 cm; 11–15 g

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Pnoepyga pusilla pusilla (Hodgson, 1845)
  – N India (SE Uttarakhand) and Nepal E to all NE Indian hill states, N, W, E & SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), S & SE China (S Shaanxi S to SE Xizang and Yunnan, E to S Anhui and Zhejiang), NW Thailand, N & C Laos and N Vietnam (W Tonkin, N Annam); also (probably this race) Hainan.
• Pnoepyga pusilla annamensis (Robinson & Kloss, 1919)
  – SW Cambodia, S Vietnam (S Annam) and, possibly this race, C Annam and S Laos.
• Pnoepyga pusilla harterti (Robinson & Kloss, 1918)
  – S Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
• Pnoepyga pusilla lepida (Salvadori, 1879)
  – Sumatra.
• Pnoepyga pusilla rufa (Sharpe, 1882)
  – Java.
• Pnoepyga pusilla everetti (Rothschild, 1897)
  – Flores.
• Pnoepyga pusilla timorensis (Mayr, 1944)
  – W Timor.

Date : 05 February 2017

八号塘, 旱龙寨, 百花岭, 高黎贡山国家自然保护区, 隆阳区, 保山市, 云南省, 中国

Hide 8, HanLongZhai, BaiHuaLing, Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve,
Longyang Qu, Baoshan Prefecture-level City, Yunnan Province, China

Date : 05 February 2017

八号塘, 旱龙寨, 百花岭, 高黎贡山国家自然保护区, 隆阳区, 保山市, 云南省, 中国

Hide 8, HanLongZhai, BaiHuaLing, Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve,
Longyang Qu, Baoshan Prefecture-level City, Yunnan Province, China