China (mainland), Hong Kong (China), Laos, Vietnam.
Eastern and south-eastern China in southern Shaanxi, southern Shaanxi and northern Henan, and from south-central Sichuan east to Shanghai, and south-eastern Yunnan east to Fujian and Guangdong; also Vietnam (south to central Annam).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Masked Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus perspicillatus) [XC883149]
by Geoff Carey from Dongzhai Nature Reserve, Xinyang, Henan, China (call)
Masked Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus perspicillatus) [XC839172]
by Bo Shunqi \u8584\u987a\u5947 from Luojing Water Conservation Forest, Shanghai, China (call)