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.
- 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.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male singing. Locality Jemmu Valley, Ethiopia
Josep del Hoyo 26 November 2005 3 years ago 4.5
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