Forest scrub robin

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

Forest scrub robin
Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1883
Scientific classification
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

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Erythropygia leucosticta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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