Thrushes (Turdidae)

Amber Mountain Rock-thrush (Monticola erythronotus) - HBW 10, p. 717

French: Monticole de l’Ambre German: Ambrerötel Spanish: Roquero de Lavauden

Taxonomy: Cossypha sharpei erythronota Lavauden, 1929, Amber Mountain, north Madagascar.
Sometimes placed with M. sharpei, M. bensoni and M. imerinus in a separate genus, Pseudocossyphus, although recent genetic evidence, and the shared possession of a derived juvenile plumage, supports their inclusion in present genus. Often considered conspecific with M. sharpei. A possibly undescribed rock-thrush, reported from W Madagascar, is evidently intermediate in plumage between the two. Monotypic.

Distribution: Montagne d’Ambre (Mt Amber), in N Madagascar.