Crested fireback  (Lophura ignita)

Known from the Malay Peninsula (south Thailand, extreme south Myanmar, and Peninsula Malaysia), Sumatra (Indonesia), and Borneo, including Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), and Kalimantan (Indonesia), although there are no recent records from Myanmar, and the species is rare in peninsula Thailand (6). Subspecies: the lesser Bornean crested fireback (L. i. ignita), is native to Kalimantan in southern Borneo, as well as Bangka Island off southeast Sumatra; the greater Bornean crested fireback (L. i. nobilis) is from Sarawak and Sabah in northern Borneo; the Malayan or Vieillott's crested fireback (L. i. rufa) has the broadest range on the Malay peninsula and much of Sumatra (except southeast); and Delacour's crested fireback (L. i. macartneyi) is found in southeast Sumatra (2) (4).

A lowland forest specialist that has also been recorded in logged, disturbed and secondary forest, found from sea level up to 1,000 metres or more above sea level in some localities (2) (6).