Cisticolas and Allies (Cisticolidae)

Yellow-bellied Prinia (Prinia flaviventris) - HBW 11, p. 434

French: Prinia à ventre jaune German: Gelbbauchprinie Spanish: Prinia Ventriamarilla
Other common names: Yellow-bellied Wren-warbler

Taxonomy: Orthotomus flaviventris Delessert, 1840, Bhutan.
Races form two groups, E group (sonitans, latrunculus) having brownish upperparts and pale buffish lower underparts, and W & S group (other races), with these areas respectively greenish and yellow; there appears to be no taxonomic significance in this. Seven subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

sindiana Ticehurst, 1920 - Pakistan (R Indus drainage E from Bannu, in NWFP, and S to Sind) and adjacent NW India (Punjab, Delhi and Haryana).
flaviventris (Delessert, 1840) - patchily through terai of N Indian Subcontinent from N India (Uttaranchal Pradesh) E to Arunachal Pradesh and W & N Myanmar.
delacouri Deignan, 1942 - E & S Myanmar, S China (S Yunnan), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

See all 7 subspecies

sindiana Ticehurst, 1920 - Pakistan (R Indus drainage E from Bannu, in NWFP, and S to Sind) and adjacent NW India (Punjab, Delhi and Haryana).
flaviventris (Delessert, 1840) - patchily through terai of N Indian Subcontinent from N India (Uttaranchal Pradesh) E to Arunachal Pradesh and W & N Myanmar.
delacouri Deignan, 1942 - E & S Myanmar, S China (S Yunnan), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
rafflesi Tweeddale, 1877 - Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and W & C Java.
halistona (Oberholser, 1912) - Nias I, off W Sumatra.
sonitans Swinhoe, 1860 - NE Vietnam (Tonkin), S China (Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan) and Taiwan.
latrunculus (Finsch, 1905) - Borneo.