Cisticolas and Allies (Cisticolidae)

Grey-breasted Prinia (Prinia hodgsonii) - HBW 11, p. 432

French: Prinia de Hodgson German: Graubrustprinie Spanish: Prinia de Hodgson
Other common names: Franklin’s/Hodgson’s Prinia/Wren-warbler, Ashy-grey Wren-warbler

Taxonomy: Pr[inia]. Hodgsonii Blyth, 1844, Mirzapur by the Ganges, India.
Most closely related to P. rufescens, which shares its habit of sewing nest into leaves, but the two are vocally and morphologically quite different. Six subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

rufula Godwin-Austen, 1874 - Himalayan foothills from N Pakistan (Muree) E to NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya), upland Bangladesh and W Myanmar.
hodgsonii Blyth, 1844 - W & C India E to lowlands of Bangladesh and Myanmar (Irrawaddy lowlands).
albogularis Walden, 1870 - S & SE India (S Karnataka Kerala, W Tamil Nadu, and Eastern Ghats S from Vishakhapatnam district).

See all 6 subspecies

rufula Godwin-Austen, 1874 - Himalayan foothills from N Pakistan (Muree) E to NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya), upland Bangladesh and W Myanmar.
hodgsonii Blyth, 1844 - W & C India E to lowlands of Bangladesh and Myanmar (Irrawaddy lowlands).
albogularis Walden, 1870 - S & SE India (S Karnataka Kerala, W Tamil Nadu, and Eastern Ghats S from Vishakhapatnam district).
pectoralis Legge, 1874 - E & SE Sri Lanka.
confusa Deignan, 1942 - SC China (S Sichuan, W & S Yunnan), NE Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin).
erro Deignan, 1942 - CE & SE Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, S Laos and S Vietnam.