Grey-breasted Prinia (Prinia hodgsonii)

Other Names (World)
Grey-breasted Prinia, Gray-breasted Prinia, Franklin's Prinia, Franklin's Wren-warbler, Hodgson's Prinia, Hodgson's Wren-warbler, Ashy-grey Wren-warbler, Ashy-gray Wren-warbler

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
10 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Blyth, 1844

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (182)...)

Grey-breasted Prinia (Prinia hodgsonii) [XC369477]
by Somkiat Pakapinyo (Chai) from Mysore-Ooty Rooad, The Nilgiris County, Tamil Nadu, India (song)

Grey-breasted Prinia (Prinia hodgsonii) [XC409924]
by Frank Lambert from Kutch, Gujarat, India (song)

Subspecies
Most closely related to Rufescent Prinia (Prinia rufescens), which shares its habit of sewing nest into leaves, but the two are vocally and morphologically quite different.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

rufula Godwin-Austen, 1874 - Himalayan foothills from northern Pakistan (Muree) east to north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya), upland Bangladesh and western Myanmar.
hodgsonii Blyth, 1844 - Western and central India east to lowlands of Bangladesh and Myanmar (Irrawaddy lowlands).
albogularis Walden, 1870 - Southern and south-eastern India (southern Karnataka Kerala, western Tamil Nadu, and eastern Ghats southern from Vishakhapatnam district).
pectoralis Legge, 1874 - Eastern and south-eastern Sri Lanka.
confusa Deignan, 1942 - South-central China (southern Sichuan, western and southern Yunnan), north-eastern Laos and northern Vietnam (Tonkin).
erro Deignan, 1942 - Central-eastern and south-eastern Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, southern Laos and southern Vietnam.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Grey-breasted Prinia (Prinia hodgsonii) - 10 files

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