brown scrub robin
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
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| image = Cercotrichas signata tongensis, volwassene, St Lucia, Birding Weto, a.jpg
| image_caption = Adult at St Lucia, South Africa
| image2 = Brown Scrub-robin (Erythropygia signata).jpg
| image2_caption = Juvenile in Mkhuze G. R., South Africa
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Tychaedon
| species = signata
| authority = (Sundevall, 1850)
| synonyms = Cossypha signata
Erythropygia signata
Tychaedon signata
Cercotrichas signata
}}
The brown scrub robin (Tychaedon signata) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Eswatini, Mozambique and, South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical dry or moist forests. This species was formerly placed in the genus Cercotrichas.
Races
There are two accepted races:{{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 C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=12 March 2025}}{{cite book |last=Chittenden |first=H. |title=Roberts geographic variation of southern African birds |year=2012 |publisher=JVBBF |location=Cape Town |isbn=978-1-920602-00-0 |pages=202–203 |display-authors=etal}}
- T. s. signata – South African coastal bush and Afromontane forest
:Description: Greyish brown plumage
- T. s. tongensis – coastal plain from northern KZN to southern Mozambique
:Description: Smaller with shorter bill. Paler brown plumage above and warmer buff plumage below. More conspicuous supercilium and moustache stripe.
References
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External links
- Brown (scrub) robin - [http://sabap2.adu.org.za/docs/sabap1/616.pdf Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds].
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Category:Birds of Southern Africa
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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