The Burmese prinia (Prinia cooki) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Annam prinia (P. rocki) were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (P. polychroa) as the brown prinia.[1][2]

Burmese prinia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Prinia
Species:
P. cooki
Binomial name
Prinia cooki
(Harington, 1913)

It is found in Southeast Asia, where it is distributed from central Myanmar west to the western edge of Thailand and Laos, and north to the southern Yunnan Province in China. It is monotypic and has no known subspecies. It was split from P. rocki and P. polychroa following a phylogenetic study published in 2019.[1][2][3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Alström, Per; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Sangster, George; Dalvi, Shashank; Round, Philip D.; Zhang, Ruying; Yao, Cheng-Te; Irestedt, Martin; Manh, Hung Le (2019). "Multiple species within the Striated Prinia Prinia crinigera-Brown Prinia P. polychroa complex revealed through an integrative taxonomic approach". Ibis. 162 (3): 936–967. doi:10.1111/ibi.12759. ISSN 1474-919X.
  2. ^ a b "Brown Prinia (Prinia polychroa)". www.hbw.com. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  3. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas, allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 February 2020.