Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Yellow-bellied Prinia

Saturday 20 September 2014

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Cisticolidae (Cisticolas & allies)

Yellow-bellied Prinia

Prinia flaviventris

黄腹鹪莺 (huáng-fù jiāo-yīng) / 灰头鹪莺 (huī-tóu jiāo-yīng)

Malay : Perenjak-Padi Biasa

Japanese : アオハウチワドリ (ao ha-uchiwa-dori)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 青羽団扇鳥

Size : 12-14 cm, 6-9 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Prinia flaviventris sindiana (Ticehurst, 1920)
– Pakistan (R Indus drainage E from Bannu, in NWFP, and S to Sind) and adjacent NW India (Punjab, Delhi and Haryana).
Prinia flaviventris flaviventris (Delessert, 1840)
– patchily through terai of N Indian Subcontinent from N India (Uttaranchal Pradesh) E to Arunachal Pradesh and W & N Myanmar.
Prinia flaviventris delacouri Deignan, 1942)
– E & S Myanmar, S China (S Yunnan), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Prinia flaviventris rafflesi (Tweeddale, 1877)
– Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and W & C Java.
Prinia flaviventris halistona (Oberholser, 1912)
– Nias I, off W Sumatra.
Prinia flaviventris sonitans (Swinhoe, 1860)
– NE Vietnam (Tonkin), S China (Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan) and Taiwan.
Prinia flaviventris latrunculus (Finsch, 1905)
– Borneo.