The striped prinia (''Prinia striata'') or Swinhoe's prinia 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 with 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'') as the striated prinia, but was split from it following a study published in 2019.
It is distributed throughout mainland
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 ...
and
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. It is
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 ...
with ''P. crinigera'' in 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 ...
of China.
There are three known subspecies: ''P. s. catharia'', which ranges from northeast India through Myanmar to south-central China, ''P. s. parumstriata'', which is distributed throughout southeast and central China, and ''P. s. striata'', which is restricted to Taiwan.
References
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Prinia
Birds of China
Birds of Taiwan
Birds described in 1859