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Scaly-Breasted Munia - Lonchura punctulata - Muskaatvink
West- to Southeast-Asia.
The following 11 subspecies are being recognized:
Lonchura punctulata punctulata - North-Pakistan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka;
Lonchura punctulata subundulata - Northeast-India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and West-Myanmar;
Lonchura punctulata yunnanensis - Southeast-Tibet, Southwest-China and North-Myanmar;
Lonchura punctulata topela - South-Myanmar, Thailand, Southeast-China, Taiwan, Hainan and Indochina;
Lonchura punctulata cabanisi - Philippines and Borneo;
Lonchura punctulata fretensis - South-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, east satellites and Nias (west of North-Sumatra);
Lonchura punctulata nisoria - Java, Bali to Sumbawa (West-Lesser Sundas) and South- and West-Borneo;
Lonchura punctulata sumbae - Sumba (West-Lesser Sundas);
Lonchura punctulata blasii - Flores to Timor (Central- to East-Lesser Sundas) and Tanimbar (South-Moluccas);
Lonchura punctulata baweana - Bawean (north of Eastcentral-Java);
Lonchura punctulata particeps - Sulawesi.
There are no Nature Photo's available of this species.