Cisticolas and Allies (Cisticolidae)

Swamp Prinia (Prinia cinerascens) - HBW 11, p. 429

French: Prinia des marais German: Sumpfprinie Spanish: Prinia Palustre
Other common names: (Assam/Eastern) Long-tailed Prinia/Grass-warbler

Taxonomy: Eurycercus cinerascens Walden, 1874, Dhubri, Lower Bengal, India.
Forms a species pair with P. burnesii, both being vocally distinct from other members of genus. The two were formerly considered conspecific, and songs are remarkably similar, but they differ in size, tail length, bill and plumage coloration, and egg colour (in present species slaty green, with profuse blackish-brown speckling), and are also geographically isolated from each other. Monotypic.

Distribution: Floodplains of R Brahmaputra in NE India.