Thrushes (Turdidae)

Mocking Cliff-chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) - HBW 10, p. 724

French: Traquet à ventre roux German: Rotbauchschmätzer Spanish: Roquero Imitador
Other common names: White-crowned Cliff-chat (coronata)

Taxonomy: Turdus cinnamomeiventris Lafresnaye, 1836, Cape Province, South Africa.
Often placed in genus Myrmecocichla. Race coronata has been treated as a separate species (sometimes with race kordofanensis) but, despite reports of dark-crowned cavernicola-type birds in sympatry or close allopatry, this decision appears premature. Nine subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

bambarae Bates, 1928 - S Mauritania, E Senegal and SW Mali.
cavernicola Bates, 1933 - C Mali (Mopti).
coronata Reichenow, 1902 - N Ivory Coast and E Burkina Faso E, discontinuously, to W Sudan.

See all 9 subspecies

bambarae Bates, 1928 - S Mauritania, E Senegal and SW Mali.
cavernicola Bates, 1933 - C Mali (Mopti).
coronata Reichenow, 1902 - N Ivory Coast and E Burkina Faso E, discontinuously, to W Sudan.
kordofanensis Wettstein, 1916 - Nuba Mts, in C Sudan.
albiscapulata (Rüppell, 1837) - N Eritrea and N, C & E Ethiopia.
subrufipennis Reichenow, 1887 - SE Sudan and SW Ethiopia S through Rift Valley and Tanzania to E Zambia and Malawi.
odica Clancey, 1962 - E Zimbabwe.
cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836) - E Botswana, E South Africa, W Swaziland and Lesotho.
autochthones Clancey, 1952 - S Mozambique S to NE South Africa and E Swaziland.