Forest scrub robin
Appearance
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Forest scrub robin | |
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Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1883 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Cercotrichas |
Species: | C. leucosticta
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Binomial name | |
Cercotrichas leucosticta (Sharpe, 1883)
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Synonyms | |
Erythropygia leucosticta |
The forest scrub robin (Cercotrichas leucosticta) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is disjunctly present throughout the African tropical rainforest :
- C. l. colstoni Tye, 1991 — Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast
- C. l. leucosticta (Sharpe, 1883) — Ghana
- C. l. collsi (Alexander, 1907) — se Central African Republic, ne DR Congo and w Uganda
- C. l. reichenowi (Hartert, 1907) — western Angola
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Erythropygia leucosticta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.