Rwenzori hill babbler

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Rwenzori hill babbler

| image =

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Sylvia atriceps |volume=2016 |page=e.T103872756A104154463 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103872756A104154463.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Sylvia

| species = atriceps

| authority = (Sharpe, 1902)

| synonyms =

• Sylvia atriceps

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The Rwenzori hill babbler (Sylvia atriceps) is a species of passerine bird in the family Sylviidae that is found in Africa.

The Rwenzori hill babbler was described by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1902 and given the binomial name Turdinus atriceps. The type locality is the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{ cite journal | last=Sharpe | first=Richard Bowdler | author-link=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | year=1902 | title=Turdinus atriceps | journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | volume=13 | pages=10 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37116692 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=412–413 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486601 }} The specific epithet atriceps is from the Latin ater for "black" and -ceps for "capped" or "headed".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=59 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n59/mode/1up }} The Rwenzori hill babbler was formerly considered to be a conspecific with the African hill babbler.{{cite web | last1=Collar | first1=N. | last2=Robson | first2=C. | year=2017 | title=Ruwenzori Hill-babbler (Sylvia atriceps) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=http://www.hbw.com/node/59386 | accessdate=8 September 2017 |url-access=subscription }} The species is monotypic.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2017 | title=Sylviid babblers, parrotbills & white-eyes | work=World Bird List Version 7.3 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sylvias/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=7 September 2017 }}