The brown prinia (''Prinia polychroa'') is a species of

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in the family

Cisticolidae The family Cisticolidae is a group of about 160 warblers, small passerine birds found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They were formerly included within the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. This family probably originated ...

. The

Burmese prinia The Burmese prinia (''Prinia cooki'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Annam prinia (''P. rocki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in Southeast Asia, wher ...

(''P. cooki'') and the

Annam prinia The Annam prinia (''Prinia rocki'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Burmese prinia (''P. cooki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in the Đà Lạt Plat ...

(''P. rocki'') were formerly lumped with this species. It is found in mainland

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

, namely in most of

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

, and

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...

, as well as on the

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

n island of

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

. Its natural

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. Populations in

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

, far western Thailand, far western Laos, and southern

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

are now considered to belong to ''P. cooki'', while populations in the Đà Lạt Plateau of

and far eastern Cambodia are now considered to belong ''P. rocki''. There are two recognised subspecies: ''P. p. deignani'', which is found in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, and ''P. p. polychroa'', which is restricted to Java. ''P. p. deignani'' was formerly considered an eastern population of ''P. p. cooki'' (when it was considered a subspecies) until the 2019 study, which split the Burmese and south Chinese populations as ''P. cooki'' while reclassifying the Thai, Laotian, and Cambodian populations into a new subspecies, ''P. p. deignani''. ''P. crinigera bangsi'', now considered a subspecies of the

Himalayan prinia The Himalayan prinia (''Prinia crinigera'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It was formerly lumped in with the striped prinia (''P. striata'') as the striated prinia. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and parts of China, ...

(''P. crinigera''), was also formerly considered another south Chinese subspecies of ''P. polychroa'' (''P. p. bangsi'') until the 2019 study. It was named after the American ornithologist

Herbert Girton Deignan Herbert Girton Deignan (December 5, 1906 – March 15, 1968) was an American ornithologist who worked extensively on the birds of Thailand. Deignan was born in New Jersey, the son of Harry Francis and Anna Galena. He grew up in Pennsylvania and ...

References

Brown prinia The brown prinia (''Prinia polychroa'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. The Burmese prinia (''P. cooki'') and the Annam prinia (''P. rocki'') were formerly lumped with this species. It is found in mainland Southeast Asia, name ...

Birds of Southeast Asia

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