Biology:Archer's ground robin

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Short description: Species of bird

Archer's ground robin
Archersrobinchat.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cossypha
Species:
C. archeri
Binomial name
Cossypha archeri
(Sharpe, 1902)

Archer's ground robin (Cossypha archeri) or Archer's robin-chat, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in the Albertine Rift montane forests.

The bird's common name commemorates the British explorer and colonial official Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer.[1]

Specimen of the nominate race in the Vienna Natural History Museum (illustration by Max Jaffé)

References

  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 29. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3728578 entry