Grey-breasted Prinia

The grey-breasted prinia, or Franklin's prinia, is a wren-warbler 11–13cm long that often holds its tail upright. In breeding plumage it is smoky grey above with a rufous wing panel and buff-white below, and is easily told by a grey band across the breast contrasting with a white throat. Outside the breeding season it is olive-brown above with a weak white eyebrow and often no breast band. It has a short all-black bill, pink legs, an orange eye-ring and a graduated grey tail tipped white. It can be confused with the rufescent prinia (Wikipedia, general species account).

The sexes look alike in most populations, but in the Sri Lankan race the female has an incomplete breast band (Wikipedia, general species account).