Chloropsis sonnerati sonnerati (Jardine and Selby, 1827) – Nominate Race
Range: Occur naturally on the island of Java in Indonesia, where they are rare.
Chloropsis sonnerati zosterops (Vigors, 1830)
Range: Southern Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar) in central Tenasserim and southwestern Thailand south to Sumatra and satellite islands, east to northern Natuna Islands and the island of Borneo located north of Java Island, Indonesia. This race is fairly common in suitable habitat.
[parvirostris] from Nias – an island off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. This race was merged with ssp. zosterops, as its bill characteristics fall within range of variation of the mainland populations.
Range: Found in northern Borneo, from Mount Kinabalu south along the spinal mountains to Mount Dulit and the Usun Apau Plateau and east to Kayan Mentarang.
Distribution: Found in western Philippines: Calamian Group (Calauit, Busuanga and Culion) and Palawan (including the satellite islands of Dumaran and Balabac)
Range: Northeastern Indian Subcontinent – east in the Himalayan foothills from Himachal Pradesh, south to Orissa) as well as northern, western and central Myanmar
Chloropsis aurifrons frontalis (Pelzeln, 1856)
Range: Western and eastern India – south from southern Gujarat and the Satpura Range and, in the east, from central Orissa
Chloropsis aurifrons insularis (Whistler and Kinnear, 1932)
Chloropsis hardwickii hardwickii (Jardine and Selby, 1830) – Nominate Form
Occur naturally in northern India (Himachal Pradesh) east in the Himalayan foothills and hill tracts to southern China (southeastern Tibet, Yunnan), Myanmar, northwestern Thailand and northern Laos.
Chloropsis hardwickii malayana (Robinson and Kloss, 1923)
Endemic in the uplands of southern Myanmar (northern and central Tenasserim) and Peninsular Malaysia.
Chloropsis hardwickii melliana (Stresemann, 1923)
Native to the uplands of southern China (from Guizhou and Guangxi east to Fujian) and of northern and central Vietnam south to southern Annam
Chloropsis hardwickii lazulina (Swinhoe, 1870)
Found in the uplands of Hainan islands – the smallest province of the People’s Republic of China
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