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 LC    Saffron-breasted Prinia* Id (Atlas):
    Prinia hypoxantha

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Drakensberg Prinia, Saffron-breasted Prinia

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
12 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sharpe, 1877

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, lowland moist shrubland.

Range (Guide)
South Africa.

Soutpansberg and escarpment of eastern South Africa and western Swaziland, south through midlands of KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape (around East London).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
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Drakensberg Prinia (Prinia hypoxantha) [XC134445]
     by Frank Lambert from Hhohho, Swaziland (song)

 
Drakensberg Prinia (Prinia hypoxantha) [XC449763]
     by Murray Christian from Howick, Indlovu DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Prinia maculosa (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Karoo Prinia (Prinia maculosa) and Saffron-breasted Prinia (Prinia hypoxantha) following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Karoo Prinia (Prinia maculosa). Often considered conspecific, but little evidence of intergradation where the two meet (other than around Mt Currie, in East Griqualand).


References
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Files:
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