Swamp Grass-babbler (Laticilla cinerascens)

Other Names (World)
Swamp Grass-babbler, Swamp Prinia, Assam Long-tailed Prinia, Assam Long-tailed Grass-warbler, Eastern Long-tailed Prinia, Eastern Long-tailed Grass-warbler, Swamp Grass Babbler

Family
Pellorneidae (Ground Babblers)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Walden, 1874)

Range (Guide)

India (B).

Floodplains of R Brahmaputra in north-eastern India.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012) and decreasing.

Status EN
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (18)...)

Swamp Grass Babbler (Laticilla cinerascens) [XC549652]
by Dibyendu Ash from Dibru Saikhowa National Park, Assam, India (call, song)

Swamp Grass Babbler (Laticilla cinerascens) [XC879104]
by Lars Lachmann from Tinsukia (near Erasuti N.C.), Upper Assam Division, Assam, India (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Prinia burnesii (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) was split into Rufous-vented Grass-babbler (Laticilla burnesii) and Swamp Grass-babbler (Laticilla cinerascens) by Rasmussen and Anderton (2005): this treatment is under review by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group.

Forms a species pair with Rufous-vented Grass-babbler (Laticilla burnesii), both being vocally distinct from other members of genus. The two were formerly considered conspecific, and songs are remarkably similar, but they differ in size, tail length, bill and plumage coloration, and egg colour (in present species slaty green, with profuse blackish-brown speckling), and are also geographically isolated from each other.

References
See References.

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