Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines (B), Singapore (B), Taiwan (China), Thailand, Vietnam.
Introduced to Palau (B) (NB).
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 (2010).
Subspecies
Lonchura malacca (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Black-headed Mannikin (Lonchura malacca) and Chestnut Munia (Lonchura atricapilla) following AOU (2000).
May form a superspecies with Black-headed Mannikin (Lonchura malacca) and White-capped Munia (Lonchura ferruginosa), and sometimes considered conspecific with former or with both.
Subspecies brunneiceps sometimes subsumed in jagori. In Borneo, proposed subspecies selimbauensis (described from Selimbau, in western Kalimantan) and obscura (from near Sampit, in southern Kalimantan) both regarded as synonyms of jagori.
The following 10 subspecies are recognised:
rubronigra (Hodgson, 1836) - Foothills of northern India and Nepal terai. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Black-headed Mannikin (Lonchura malacca).
atricapilla (Vieillot, 1807) - Northern India (from Punjab east to Brahmaputra Valley, south to Bihar and northern Orissa), Bangladesh, Myanmar and southern China (south-western Yunnan).
deignani Parkes, 1958 - Thailand (except central and north-east), Indochina and south-eastern China.
sinensis (Blyth, 1852) - Malay Peninsula and northern Sumatra.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet