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Forest scrub robin
Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1883
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)

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