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) [XC434414]
by jinze from Hong Kong Wetland Park (near Hong Kong), Yuen Long District, New Territories, China (call, conflict call)
Masked Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus perspicillatus) [XC408792]
by lchunfai from Nanshan Park, Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China (call)