Babblers (Timaliidae)
Brown Illadopsis (Illadopsis fulvescens) - HBW 12, p. 189
French: Akalat brun
German: Braunbauch-Buschdrossling
Spanish: Tordina Parda
Other common names: Brown Thrush-babbler, Brown-breasted Illadopsis; Moloney’s Illadopsis (moloneyana, iboensis)
Taxonomy: Turdirostris fulvescens Cassin, 1859, Cama River, Gabon.
Has been placed in genus Trichastoma and in Malacocincla. Races iboensis and moloneyana have been thought possibly to represent a separate species; latter, however, appears to intergrade with race gularis in Ghana. Six subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- gularis Sharpe, 1870 - SW Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone E to SW Ghana.
- moloneyana (Sharpe, 1892) - SE Ghana E to SW Nigeria.
- iboensis (E. J. O. Hartert, 1907) - SE Nigeria and SW Cameroon; also (probably this race) in C Nigeria (Jos Plateau).
- gularis Sharpe, 1870 - SW Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone E to SW Ghana.
- moloneyana (Sharpe, 1892) - SE Ghana E to SW Nigeria.
- iboensis (E. J. O. Hartert, 1907) - SE Nigeria and SW Cameroon; also (probably this race) in C Nigeria (Jos Plateau).
- fulvescens (Cassin, 1859) - S Cameroon S to S PRCongo, extreme W DRCongo, also W Central African Republic.
- ugandae (van Someren, 1915) - SC Central African Republic and E PRCongo E through DRCongo to S Sudan, Uganda, W Kenya and W Tanzania, also NE Angola.
- dilutior (C. M. N. White, 1953) - NW Angola.
- Least Concern
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