Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)

Usambara Hyliota (Hyliota usambara) - HBW 11, p. 643

French: Hyliote des Usambara German: Usambarahyliota Spanish: Hiliota de los Usambara

Taxonomy: Hyliota australis usambara W. L. Sclater, 1932, Amani, 3000 feet [c. 915 m], Tanzania.
Genus has in the past been placed variously with the Old World flycatchers (in family Muscicapidae), with the monarch-flycatchers (Monarchidae) or with the batises and wattle-eyes (Platysteiridae); although plumage resembles that of some muscicapid flycatchers of genus Ficedula, and nest is like that of platysteirids, the nestling mouth spots, the unspotted juvenile plumage and behaviour are all typical of present family. Present species often treated as a race of H. australis, but is sexually monomorphic and has several distinctive plumage characters. Monotypic.

Distribution: Foothills of E Usambara Mts (once in W Usambaras at 1000 m), in NE Tanzania.