Black-headed Sibia © oiseaux.net

Until recently treated as conspecific with Dark-backed Sibia (Heterophasia melanoleuca). Birds from north-western Yunnan (particularly Lijiang), in southern China, described as a further subspecies, tecta, supposedly with more brown on upperparts, but this feature is not constant.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• desgodinsi (Oustalet, 1877)   -  Northern Myanmar and south-central and south-eastern China (Yunnan, central and southern Sichuan, western and northern Guizhou, north-western Hunan, western Guangxi).
• tonkinensis (Yen, 1934)   -  Extreme northern Vietnam (northern Tonkin).
• engelbachi (Delacour, 1930)   -  Bolovens Plateau, in southern Laos.
• kingi Eames, JC, 2002   -  South-eastern Laos and central Vietnam (central Annam).
• robinsoni (Rothschild, 1921)   -  Southern Annam, in southern Vietnam.

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