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Forest scrub robin

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Forest scrub robin
CossyphaLeucostictaSmit.jpg
Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1883
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cercotrichas
Species:
C. leucosticta
Binomial name
Cercotrichas leucosticta
(Sharpe, 1883)
Synonyms

Erythropygia leucosticta
Cossypha 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

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Erythropygia leucosticta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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