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Vagrant to Hong Kong (China).

Proposed subspecies assamica (described from Naga Hills, in north-eastern India) synonymized with nemoricola. Type locality of species falls outside breeding range of nominate subspecies and instead within range of subspecies blythii, but in non-breeding season both forms can co-occur in this region. Name was presumably based on a visiting specimen.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• malabarica (Gmelin, 1789)   -  Northern India (foothills in Himachal Pradesh) east to north-eastern Arunachal Pradesh (Mishmi Hills) and northern Assam, south to Orissa. Occurs in remainder of peninsula, but status uncertain.
• blythii (Jerdon, 1845)   -  South-western India (from southern Maharashtra south to Kerala).
• nemoricola Jerdon, 1862   -  North-eastern India (southern Assam) east to Myanmar, southern China, Thailand and Indochina.

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