Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Grey-sided Bush-warbler (Cettia brunnifrons) - HBW 11, p. 595
French: Bouscarle à couronne brune
German: Rotkopf-Buschsänger
Spanish: Cetia Capirotado
Taxonomy: Prinia brunnifrons Hodgson, 1845, Nepal.
Race whistleri intergrades with nominate in N India (Uttaranchal Pradesh); variation throughout range possibly clinal, and species sometimes treated as monotypic. Birds from NE India described as race muroides, considered inseparable from umbratica. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- whistleri (Ticehurst, 1923) - NW Himalayas from N Pakistan (Kaghan Valley) and Kashmir E to N India (Uttaranchal Pradesh).
- brunnifrons (Hodgson, 1845) - Himalayas from N India (Uttaranchal Pradesh) E to Bhutan and S China (SE Xizang).
- umbratica (Stuart Baker, 1924) - NE India (Arunachal Pradesh), S China (SE Tibet, W Sichuan, NW Yunnan) and N Myanmar.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Song Locality Cangshan Mountain, Yunnan, China (Southern)
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