The Himalayan prinia (''Prinia crinigera'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

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 ...

. It was formerly lumped in with the

striped prinia The striped prinia (''Prinia striata'') or Swinhoe's prinia is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It was formerly lumped with the Himalayan prinia (''P. crinigera'') as the striated prinia, but was split from it following a study publi ...

(''P. striata'') as the striated prinia. It is found in the

Indian Subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ...

and parts of

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, with its range generally following the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...

. It is distributed in the countries of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

, and the

Yunnan Province Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

in China. Populations in

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, most of China, and

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are now considered to belong to ''P. striata'' following a 2019 study. Both ''P. crinigera'' and ''P. striata'' are

sympatric In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another. An initially interbreeding population that splits into two or more distinct species sh ...

in the Yunnan Province. There are four known subspecies: ''P. c. striatula'', which is known from the mountains of Afghanistan and west Pakistan; ''P. c. crinigera'', which is distributed from north Pakistan to

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

in northeast India; ''P. c. yunnanensis'', which is restricted to the northwestern Yunnan Province in China, and ''P. c. bangsi'' in the southeastern Yunnan Province. ''P. c. bangsi'' was formerly considered a subspecies of Deignan's prinia (formerly the brown prinia) until the 2019 study.

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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, ...

Birds of the Himalayas Birds of Northeast India Birds of Pakistan Birds of Afghanistan

Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cisticolidae-stub