Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
Grey Tit-flycatcher (Myioparus plumbeus) - HBW 11, p. 125
French: Gobemouche mésange
German: Meisenschnäpper
Spanish: Papamoscas Carbonero
Other common names: Fan-tailed/Lead-coloured Flycatcher
Taxonomy: Stenostira plumbea Hartlaub, 1858, Casamance River, Senegal.
This species and M. griseigularis were formerly placed in sylviid genus Parisoma, until spotted juvenile plumage of present species was described; both subsequently regarded as muscicapids, although foraging habits and calling behaviour are more like those of Sylviidae. Proposed race grandior (from SW Zambia) considered indistinguishable from catoleucus. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- plumbeus (Hartlaub, 1858) - Senegal and Gambia, SW Mali, Guinea (and possibly Guinea-Bissau), Sierra Leone and Liberia (at least coastal regions) E to Cameroon, S Chad, W & C Central African Republic, S Sudan and SW Ethiopia, S to Gabon, W & SW PRCongo, C & E DRCongo, W Uganda, W Kenya and NW Tanzania (S to Biharamulo and Kibondo).
- orientalis (Reichenow & Neumann, 1895) - SE Kenya and E Tanzania S to S Malawi, N, E & SE Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and NE South Africa (E Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal).
- catoleucus (Reichenow, 1900) - W & NE Angola and from SE DRCongo (Katanga), N Malawi and SE Tanzania (Sumbawanga to Iringa and Dodoma) S to NE Namibia (Caprivi), Botswana, W & C Zimbabwe and NE South Africa (W Limpopo, Gauteng and North West provinces).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird moving among branches Locality Jacana Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp plumbeus)
Josep del Hoyo 5 September 2006 4 years ago 37 sec 3.6
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Perched in a tree
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Lindsay Hansch 13 October 2008 42 weeks ago 2.7
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