Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)

Yellow-bellied Warbler (Abroscopus superciliaris) - HBW 11, p. 680

French: Pouillot à sourcils blancs German: Bambuslaubsänger Spanish: Mosquitero Cejiblanco
Other common names: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher-warbler, Bamboo Warbler/Flycatcher-warbler, White-throated Warbler/Flycatcher-warbler

Taxonomy: Abrornis superciliaris Blyth, 1859, Tenasserim, Myanmar.
Ten subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • flaviventris (Jerdon, 1863) - Nepal, NE India (Sikkim, N West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur), Bhutan, E Bangladesh and W Myanmar.
  • drasticus Deignan, 1947 - NE India (Assam) and N Myanmar.
  • smythiesi Deignan, 1947 - C Myanmar.

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  • flaviventris (Jerdon, 1863) - Nepal, NE India (Sikkim, N West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur), Bhutan, E Bangladesh and W Myanmar.
  • drasticus Deignan, 1947 - NE India (Assam) and N Myanmar.
  • smythiesi Deignan, 1947 - C Myanmar.
  • superciliaris (Blyth, 1859) - E & S Myanmar, S China (S Yunnan), and N & SW Thailand E to C Laos.
  • euthymus Deignan, 1947 - Vietnam.
  • bambusarum Deignan, 1947 - N peninsular Thailand.
  • sakaiorum (Stresemann, 1912) - S peninsular Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
  • papilio Deignan, 1947 - Sumatra.
  • schwaneri (Blyth, 1870) - Borneo.
  • vordermani (Büttikofer, 1893) - Java.