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Introduced to Singapore.

Forms a superspecies with Sumatran Leafbird (Chloropsis media) and was for long considered conspecific, but differs in several respects, including in development of mask.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• aurifrons (Temminck, 1829)   -  North-eastern Indian Subcontinent (eastern in Himalayan foothills from Himachal Pradesh, south to Orissa) and north, western and central Myanmar.
• frontalis (Pelzeln, 1856)   -  Western and eastern India (southern from southern Gujarat and the Satpura Range and, in east, from central Orissa).
• insularis Whistler & Kinnear, 1932   -  Far south-western India and Sri Lanka.
• pridii Deignan, 1946   -  Southern China (south-western Yunnan), eastern and southern Myanmar, north-western and western Thailand and northern and central Laos.
• inornata Kloss, 1918   -  East-central and eastern Thailand, southern Laos and central Vietnam.
• incompta Deignan, 1948   -  South-western and south-eastern Thailand, Cambodia and southern Vietnam.

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