Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Yellow-throated Woodland-warbler (Phylloscopus ruficapilla) - HBW 11, p. 647
French: Pouillot à gorge jaune
German: Rotscheitel-Laubsänger
Spanish: Mosquitero Gorgigualdo
Other common names: Yellow-throated Wood Warbler, African Yellow-throated Warbler
Taxonomy: Pogonocichla ruficapilla Sundevall, 1850, Durban, South Africa.
Has been placed in genus Seicercus. Forms a superspecies with P. laurae and P. laetus. Geographical variation broadly clinal. Birds from NE South Africa (Soutpansberg and Drakensberg, in E Northern Province) named as race ochraceiceps, but considered indistinguishable from nominate. Seven subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- ochrogularis (Moreau, 1941) - W Tanzania (Mahari Mts).
- minullus (Reichenow, 1905) - SE Kenya (Taita Hills) and NE & E Tanzania (S to Ulugurus).
- johnstoni (W. L. Sclater, 1927) - S Tanzania and Malawi S to NE Zambia and NW Mozambique.
- ochrogularis (Moreau, 1941) - W Tanzania (Mahari Mts).
- minullus (Reichenow, 1905) - SE Kenya (Taita Hills) and NE & E Tanzania (S to Ulugurus).
- johnstoni (W. L. Sclater, 1927) - S Tanzania and Malawi S to NE Zambia and NW Mozambique.
- quelimanensis (Vincent, 1933) - N Mozambique (Mt Namule).
- alacris (Clancey, 1969) - E Zimbabwe and W Mozambique (Mt Gorongoza).
- ruficapilla (Sundevall, 1850) - E South Africa (E Northern Province S to KwaZulu-Natal), W Swaziland and E Lesotho.
- voelckeri (Roberts, 1941) - S South Africa (S Western Cape E along coast to E Eastern Cape).
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An adult perched on a branch.
Locality Tsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (ssp voelckeri)
Carmelo López 21 November 2010 1 year ago 2
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