Black-collared apalis

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Black-collared apalis

| image =ApalisDryodromasKeulemans.jpg

| image_caption = Illustration (lower bird) by J. G. Keulemans (1892)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Oreolais pulcher |volume=2016 |page=e.T22713703A94386592 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713703A94386592.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| genus = Oreolais

| species = pulcher

| authority = (Sharpe, 1891)

| synonyms = Apalis pulchra

}}

The black-collared apalis (Oreolais pulcher) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

It is found in the Cameroonian Highlands forests, western Kenya and the Albertine rift montane forests.

The black-collared apalis was formerly placed in the genus Apalis but was moved to the new genus Oreolais when Apalis was shown to be polyphyletic.{{cite journal | last1 = Nguembock | first1 = B. | last2 = Fjeldså | first2 = J. | last3 = Couloux | first3 = A. | last4 = Cruaud | first4 = C. | last5 = Pasquet | first5 = E. | year = 2008 | title = Polyphyly of the genus Apalis and a new generic name for the species pulchra and ruwenzorii | journal = Ibis | volume = 150 | issue = 4 | pages = 756–765 | doi = 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00852.x }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2017 | title=Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas & allies | work=World Bird List Version 7.3 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/grassbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=26 August 2017 }}