Rufous-vented Prinia © birdingwitharjun.com

Forms a species pair with Swamp Grass-babbler (Laticilla cinerascens), both being vocally distinct from other members of genus. The two were formerly considered conspecific, and songs are remarkably similar, but they differ in size, tail length, bill and plumage coloration, and egg colour (in present species white, faintly tinged green, with dark profuse brown speckling), and are also geographically isolated from each other.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• burnesii (Blyth, 1844)   -  Pakistan, north-western India, Nepal.
• nipalensis (Baral et al., 2007)   -  Eastern Nepal.
• nepalicola Baral et al., 2008   -  Eastern Nepal.

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