Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)

Moustached Grass-warbler (Melocichla mentalis) - HBW 11, p. 611

French: Mélocichle à moustaches German: Bartgrassänger Spanish: Yerbera Bigotuda
Other common names: African Moustached Warbler, Moustached Scrub-warbler

Taxonomy: Drymoica mentalis Fraser, 1843, Accra, Ghana.
Genus has sometimes been merged with Sphenoeacus, and present species then placed in a superspecies with S. afer and Rockrunner (Chaetops pycnopygius); latter, however, now classed as a babbler (Timaliidae), and the three species are now thought not to be closely related. Race amauroura intergrades with nominate in Uele region of E DRCongo. Proposed race incana known only from type locality of Momella, on Mt Meru (NE Tanzania); more information required in order to confirm validity. Four subspecies recognized.

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