Scaly-breasted Munia

Order - Passeriformes 雀形目
Family - Estrildidae 梅花雀科 (Waxbills)
Genus - Lonchura 文鸟属

Scaly-breasted Munia

Lonchura punctulata

班文鸟

    Size : 10-12.5 cm; 12-16 g

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Lonchura punctulata punctulata (Linnaeus, 1758) – Checkered Munia
  – N Pakistan, India (except NE), Nepal terai and Sri Lanka; recorded in NE Afghanistan.
• Lonchura punctulata subundulata (Godwin-Austen, 1874)
  – Bhutan, Bangladesh, NE India (Assam) and W Myanmar.
• Lonchura punctulata yunnanensis (Parkes, 1958)
  – S China (SE Xizang, S Sichuan, Yunnan) and N & NE Myanmar.
• Lonchura punctulata topela (Swinhoe, 1863)
  – S Myanmar, Thailand, SE China, Hainan, Taiwan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
• Lonchura punctulata cabanisi (Sharpe, 1890)
  – Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Calauit, Palawan, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindanao)
  and N Borneo (coastal W Sabah and Brunei).
• Lonchura punctulata fretensis (Kloss, 1931)
  – S Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra and Nias I, Riau and Lingga Archipelagos, Bangka and Belitung.
• Lonchura punctulata nisoria (Temminck, 1830) – Scaly-breasted Munia
  – S Borneo (W & S Kalimantan), Java, Bali, and W Lesser Sundas (Lombok, Sumbawa).
• Lonchura punctulata particeps (Riley, 1920)
  – Sulawesi.
• Lonchura punctulata baweana (Hoogerwerf, 1963)
  – Bawean I, off NE Java.
• Lonchura punctulata sumbae (Mayr, 1944)
  – Sumba, in W Lesser Sundas.
• Lonchura punctulata blasii (Stresemann, 1912)
  – C & E Lesser Sundas (Flores E to Timor and Tanimbar Is).

    Introduced (mainly race topela) in Seychelles, Mascarene Is, Japan, Australia, Palau
    Is (extirpated), Caroline Is, Hawaiian Is, Tahiti, West Indies (Cuba, Puerto Rico,
    Jamaica, Hispaniola), Guadeloupe; nominate race in S USA (California, Florida).

Date : 22 March 2014
塱原湿地, 上水区, 新界, 香港
Long Valley Wetland, Sheung Shui District, New Territories, Hong Kong