Cisticolas and Allies (Cisticolidae)
Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola) - HBW 11, p. 479
French: Apalis à tête brune
German: Braunkopf-Feinsänger
Spanish: Apalis Cabecipardo
Taxonomy: Cisticola alticola Shelley, 1899, Nyasaland = Isoka, Zambia.
Forms a superspecies with A. cinerea; the two have often been treated as conspecific, but are sympatric in S Kenya and N Tanzania; race dowsetti is intermediate between nominate and A. cinerea in amount of white in outer tail. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- alticola (Shelley, 1899) - NC Angola, S DRCongo, N Zambia, N Malawi, Tanzania and SW Kenya.
- dowsetti Prigogine, 1973 - Marungu Mts, in SE DRCongo.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult perched
Locality Zambia (ssp alticola)
Nik Borrow 14 September 2011 21 weeks ago 3.8
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