Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, high altitude shrubland, temperate forest. From 180 - 3,300 m.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Taiwan (China), Thailand, Vietnam.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
White-bellied Erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) [XC474703]
by David Edwards from Garbhanga Forest (near Guwahati), Kamrup Metropolitan, Assam, India (call, song)
White-bellied Erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) [XC240666]
by Mike Nelson from (Phnom Aoral) \u1783\u17bb\u17c6 \u178f\u17d2\u179a\u1796\u17b6\u17c6\u1784\u1787\u17c4, \u179f\u17d2\u179a\u17bb\u1780\u17b1\u179a\u17c9\u17b6\u179b\u17cb, \u1781\u17c1\u178f\u17d2\u178f\u1780\u17c6\u1796\u1784\u17cb\u179f\u17d2\u1796\u17ba, Cambodia (call, song)
Subspecies
Affinities uncertain. Geographical variation trivial, and some named subspecies considered untenable; thus, griseiloris (from south-eastern Yunnan and Guizhou east to Taiwan) is synonymized with tyrannulus, and sordida (eastern Thailand and southern Indochina) and interposita (Peninsular Malaysia) with nominate.
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:
zantholeuca (Blyth, 1844) - Nepal, Bhutan, all north-eastern Indian states, eastern Bangladesh, southern China (western and southern Yunnan), and throughout south-eastern Asia (except for northern and south-eastern Thailand and northern Indochina).
tyrannulus Swinhoe, 1870 - South-eastern China (south-eastern Yunnan and southern Guizhou east to Jiangxi and Fujian, including Hainan and Hong Kong), Taiwan, northern Thailand and northern Indochina.