Yellow-browed camaroptera

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Yellow-browed camaroptera

| image = Yellow-browed Cameroptera near Kakum NP - Ghana 14 S4E2582 (16012281840).jpg

| image_caption = Near Kakum in Ghana

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Camaroptera superciliaris |volume=2016 |page=e.T22713868A94392312 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713868A94392312.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Camaroptera

| species = superciliaris

| authority = (Fraser, 1843)

| synonyms =

}}

The yellow-browed camaroptera (Camaroptera superciliaris) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

The yellow-browed camaroptera was described by the English zoologist Louis Fraser in 1843 under the binomial name Sylvicola superciliaris. The type locality is the island of Bioko (formerly Fernando Pó) in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa.{{cite journal | last=Fraser | first=Louis | author-link=Louis Fraser | year=1843 | title=Sylvicola superciliaris | journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology | volume=12 | page=440 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22101345 }}{{cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=190 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483891 }} The specific epithet superciliaris is from the Neo-Latin superciliaris, "eyebrowed" from the classical Latin supercilium, "eyebrow".{{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=374 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n374/mode/1up }}

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