Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia (B), China (mainland), India, Laos (B), Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam.
From northern India (eastern from Kumaon, in Uttaranchal Pradesh) east to all north-eastern hill states and northern and western Myanmar, adjacent south-eastern Xizang (Zayu), central, southern and south-eastern China (northern and north-eastern Sichuan, eastern Jiangxi, southern Zhejiang, north-western Fujian, Yunnan, Guangxi), northern and central Laos, Vietnam (Tonkin, northern and southern Annam) and extreme eastern Cambodia.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Black-chinned Yuhina (Yuhina nigrimenta) [XC121340]
by Frank Lambert from Namdapha, India (call, song)
Black-chinned Yuhina (Yuhina nigrimenta) [XC473132]
by Peter Boesman from Mohan area, Corbett NP buffer zone, Uttarakhand, India (call)
Subspecies
Geographical variation clinal, with slight increase in size and underpart pallor from east to west. Proposed subspecies intermedia (from north-eastern Myanmar and central and southern China south to northern Laos and southern Vietnam) and pallida (highlands of Fujian, in south-eastern China) appear to represent middle stage and end, respectively, of this cline.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
nigrimenta Blyth, 1845 - Central, eastern Himalayas to south-eastern China south to northern, southern Indochina.
intermedia Rothschild, 1922 - Myanmar to southern China (Liaoning, Sichuan, Yunnan) and northern Indochina.
pallida La Touche, 1897 - Highlands of south-eastern China (north-western Fujian, Guangxi and Guangdong).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet