Thrushes (Turdidae)

Heuglin's Wheatear (Oenanthe heuglini) - HBW 10, p. 805

French: Traquet de Heuglin German: Heuglinsteinschmätzer Spanish: Collalba de Heuglin

Taxonomy: Saxicola Heuglini Finsch and Hartlaub, 1870, “Gondar”; error = Sudan.
May form a superspecies with O. isabellina and O. bottae, and all sometimes considered conspecific. Commonly treated as conspecific with latter, but geographical break between the two abrupt, and they differ in plumage and particularly in size, as well as in habitat and, reputedly, behaviour. Proposed race campicolina (described from Cameroon) considered unwarranted. Monotypic.

Distribution: S Mauritania and Mali E to Sudan, W Ethiopia, NE Uganda and NW Kenya.