Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Green-backed Eremomela (Eremomela canescens) - HBW 11, p. 684
French: Érémomèle grisonnante
German: Grünrückeneremomela
Spanish: Eremomela Dorsiverde
Taxonomy: Eremomela? canescens Antinori, 1864, Djiu River, Bahr el Ghazal, south-west Sudan.
Forms a superspecies with E. pusilla, E. scotops and E. gregalis. Has been treated as conspecific with first of those, with which it hybridizes along Cameroon-Central African Republic border. Proposed race elgonensis (from W Kenya and adjacent Uganda) evidently an intergrade between elegans and nominate, and synonymized with latter. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- canescens Antinori, 1864 - S Chad, E Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Sudan, extreme N & NE DRCongo, N & E Uganda and W Kenya.
- elegans Heuglin, 1864 - W & C Sudan (Darfur and Kordofan E to Sennar).
- abyssinica Bannerman, 1911 - E Sudan (Kassala to R Sobat), N Eritrea, W Ethiopia (S to R Omo).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Single adult foraging in low tree.
Locality Butiaba Escarpment, Uganda (ssp canescens)
Tom Tarrant 22 December 2005 3 years ago 3 -
Foraging in tree
Locality Adi Keyh, Southern Region, Eritrea
Jason Anderson 14 December 2008 2 years ago 2.7
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