Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Rufescent Prinia

Monday, 14 September 2015

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Cisticolidae (Cisticolas & allies)

Rufescent Prinia

Prinia rufescens

暗冕鹪莺 (àn-miǎn jiāo-yīng) / 暗冕山鹪莺 (àn-miǎn shān-jiāo-yīng)

Malay : Perenjak-Padi Belukar

Japanese : チャイロハウチワドリ (cha-iro ha-uchiwa-dori)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 茶色羽団扇鳥

  Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 5,330,000km²
  Migratory Status : Not a Migrant
  Breeding Endemic : No

Size : 11–12 cm; 6–7 g

Subspecies (6) and Distribution

Prinia rufescens rufescens (Blyth, 1847, Arracan (= Arakan), Burma)
– From Sikkim and adjacent N West Bengal E to Arunachal Pradesh, and from Meghalaya E to Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram; also Simlipal Hills in NE Odisha and Alluri Sitaramaraju Forest in N Andhra Pradesh (India), Bhutan, C and E Bangladesh, SE Tibet, W and S Yunnan, SW Guangxi (China), and N, W and C Myanmar.
Prinia rufescens beavani (Walden, 1867, Schouay Goon = Shwegun, Salween river, Tenasserim)
– SE Myanmar and Thailand (except SE and peninsula) E to N and C Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin).
Prinia rufescens peninsularis (Deignan, 1942, Trang, peninsular Siam)
– extreme S Myanmar (S Tenasserim) and S Thailand.
Prinia rufescens extrema (Deignan, 1942, Bangna:ra, peninsular Siam = Narathiwat, lat. 6° 25' N., long. 101° 50' E., Pattani Province, Thailand, fide Deignan, 1961)
– extreme S Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
Prinia rufescens objurgans (Deignan, 1942, Siracha, southeastern Siam (= Ban Si Racha, Chor Buri Province, Thailand))
– SE Thailand and S Cambodia.
Prinia rufescens dalatensis (Riley, 1940, Fimnon (= Fimnom), southern Annam; altitude 3,000 feet)
– SC and S Vietnam.