Cossypha

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image = Cossypha niveicapilla4.jpg

| image_caption = Snowy-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha niveicapilla)

| taxon = Cossypha

| type_species = Turdus vociferans{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=183 |title= Muscicapidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-15}}

| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1823

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| authority = Vigors, 1825

}}

Cossypha are small insectivorous birds, with most species called robin-chats. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now more often treated as part of the Old World flycatcher Muscicapidae.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}

These are African woodland dwelling species, but some have become adapted to sites around human habitation.

The name Cossypha for the genus was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825.{{cite journal | last=Vigors | first=Nicholas Aylward | author-link=Nicholas Aylward Vigors | year=1825 | title=Cossypha | journal=Zoological Journal | volume=2 | page=396 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2255533 }} The word comes from the Classical Greek kossuphos for a blackbird or thrush.{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n120 120] }}

The genus contains the following eight species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2023 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=21 July 2023}}

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Image	Common Name	Scientific Name	Distribution
120px	White-crowned robin-chat	Cossypha albicapillus	Sudanian savanna
120px	White-browed robin-chat	Cossypha heuglini	Sub-Saharan Africa (rare in western and southern Africa)
120px	Chorister robin-chat	Cossypha dichroa	eastern southern Africa
120px	Rüppell's robin-chat	Cossypha semirufa	eastern Afromontane
120px	Snowy-crowned robin-chat	Cossypha niveicapilla	northern Sub-Saharan Africa
120px	Red-capped robin-chat	Cossypha natalensis	central and eastern Sub-Saharan Africa
-	White-headed robin-chat	Cossypha heinrichi	northern Angola and western DR Congo
-	Blue-shouldered robin-chat	Cossypha cyanocampter	African tropical rainforest