Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Zitting Cisticola / Fan-tailed Cisticola

Tuesday 2 December 2014

Zitting Cisticola / Fan-tailed Cisticola

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Cisticolidae (Cisticolas & allies)

Zitting Cisticola / Fan-tailed Cisticola

Cisticola juncidis

棕扇尾莺 (zōng shàn-wěi-yīng) / 锦鸲 (jǐn-qú)

Malay : Cak-Tinting Kecil Biasa

Japanese : セッカ (sekka)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 雪下 / 雪加

Size : 10 cm

Male 7–12 g; Female 5–8 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Cisticola juncidis cisticola (Temminck, 1820)
– W France, Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Is and NW Africa.
Cisticola juncidis juncidis (Rafinesque, 1810)
– S France E to Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Syria, also Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete and Egypt.
Cisticola juncidis neuroticus (R. Meinertzhagen, 1920)
– Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and W Iran.
Cisticola juncidis uropygialis (Fraser, 1843)
– Senegal E to Eritrea, Ethiopia, SW Arabia and N Kenya.
Cisticola juncidis perennius (Lynes, 1930)
– E DRCongo, Uganda, Kenya and N Tanzania, including islands of Pemba, Zanzibar and Mafia.
Cisticola juncidis terrestris (A. Smith, 1842)
– Gabon and PRCongo, Angola, S DRCongo and S Tanzania S to South Africa.
Cisticola juncidis cursitans (Franklin, 1831)
– E Afghanistan and Pakistan E to N Myanmar and S China (W Yunnan), S to SE India and Sri Lanka (dry lowlands).
Cisticola juncidis salimalii (Whistler, 1936)
– SW India (Kerala).
Cisticola juncidis omalurus (Blyth, 1851)
– Sri Lanka (except low-lying dry areas).
Cisticola juncidis malaya (Lynes, 1930)
– S Myanmar, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Nicobar Is, Sumatra and W Java.
Cisticola juncidis brunniceps (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
– S Korea, Japan (S from Honshu, including Ryukyu Is and Izu Is) and extreme N Philippines (Batan Is).
Cisticola juncidis tinnabulans (Swinhoe, 1859)
– SE China, Taiwan, Hainan, Indochina and Philippines (except Batan Is, Culion and Palawan).
Cisticola juncidis nigrostriatus (Parkes, 1971)
– Culion and Palawan (W Philippines).
Cisticola juncidis fuscicapilla (Wallace, 1864)
– E Java, Kangean Is and Lesser Sundas (E to Timor, Wetar, Kisar, Leti and Moa).
Cisticola juncidis constans (Lynes, 1938)
– Sulawesi and adjacent islands (including Muna, Butung, Tukangbesi and Peleng).
Cisticola juncidis leanyeri (Givens & Hitchcock, 1953)
– coastal areas of N Australia (extreme NE Western Australia and Northern Territory).
Cisticola juncidis normani (Mathews, 1914)
– NW Queensland (S Gulf of Carpentaria), in N Australia.
Cisticola juncidis laveryi (Schodde & Mason, 1979)
– E Gulf of Carpentaria and C Queensland coast, in NE Australia; also (possibly this race) S New Guinea.