Cisticolas and Allies (Cisticolidae)

Plain Prinia (Prinia inornata) - HBW 11, p. 434

French: Prinia simple German: Schlichtprinie Spanish: Prinia Sencilla
Other common names: Plain-coloured/Tawny/White-browed Prinia, Brown/Plain Wren-warbler

Taxonomy: Prinia inornata Sykes, 1832, Deccan, central India.
Forms a superspecies with P. subflava, P. somalica and P. fluviatilis. Sometimes treated as conspecific with first of those, but differs vocally and, to some extent, in plumage coloration; situation complicated, however, by geographical variation; further study required. Sri Lankan race insularis exhibits differences in song from mainland races; perhaps also in need of further study. Ten subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

terricolor (Hume, 1874) - extreme E Afghanistan (Jalalabad) and W Pakistan (NWFP and fringes of Baluchistan) E over NW India (E to Vadodara) to SW Nepal.
inornata Sykes, 1832 - C & SE India (S from Gangetic Plain).
franklinii Blyth, 1844 - SW India (S Karnataka, Kerala, W Tamil Nadu).

See all 10 subspecies

terricolor (Hume, 1874) - extreme E Afghanistan (Jalalabad) and W Pakistan (NWFP and fringes of Baluchistan) E over NW India (E to Vadodara) to SW Nepal.
inornata Sykes, 1832 - C & SE India (S from Gangetic Plain).
franklinii Blyth, 1844 - SW India (S Karnataka, Kerala, W Tamil Nadu).
insularis (Legge, 1879) - Sri Lanka.
fusca Hodgson, 1845 - lowlands of Nepal E to Bhutan, Bangladesh, NE India (E to Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur) and SW Myanmar.
blanfordi (Walden, 1875) - NC & E Myanmar, NW Thailand and S China (W Yunnan).
extensicauda (Swinhoe, 1860) - S & E China (N & E Yunnan,W Sichuan E to Jiangxi and Zhejiang, also Hainan) S to N Laos and N Vietnam (Tonkin).
flavirostris (Swinhoe, 1863) - Taiwan.
herberti Stuart Baker, 1918 - S Myanmar (Tenasserim), C & E Thailand, Cambodia, C & S Laos and C & S Vietnam.
blythi (Bonaparte, 1850) - Java.