Biology:Forest scrub robin
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Short description: Species of bird
| Forest scrub robin | |
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| Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1883 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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 | |
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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
Wikidata ☰ Q2226055 entry
