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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| + | Drab, greyish, short tailed forest thrush. Upperparts brownish grey. Lores and earcoverts pale greyish buff with 2 bold, blackish vertical bars, one through the eye and one at the rear of the ear coverts. thin dark moustachial stripe connects with the stripe through the eye. chin and throat pale buffish grey. breast, belly and flanks washed dirty, warm brown. Vent and undertail coverts white. Broad white wingbar on the median coverts, narrower one on the greater coverts. Thin ochre-ish margins to secondaries shows as a faint panel in good, close views.Primaries and tail both dark brown. Bare parts :- Broad white eye ring, split by vertical bar, black bill, Pinkish horn ( with a slight purple component ) legs and feet. | ||
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==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
Found in West and Central [[Africa]] from [[Liberia]] over [[Cameroon]] and [[Zaire]] to [[Uganda]]. | Found in West and Central [[Africa]] from [[Liberia]] over [[Cameroon]] and [[Zaire]] to [[Uganda]]. | ||
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- Zoothera princei
Identification
Drab, greyish, short tailed forest thrush. Upperparts brownish grey. Lores and earcoverts pale greyish buff with 2 bold, blackish vertical bars, one through the eye and one at the rear of the ear coverts. thin dark moustachial stripe connects with the stripe through the eye. chin and throat pale buffish grey. breast, belly and flanks washed dirty, warm brown. Vent and undertail coverts white. Broad white wingbar on the median coverts, narrower one on the greater coverts. Thin ochre-ish margins to secondaries shows as a faint panel in good, close views.Primaries and tail both dark brown. Bare parts :- Broad white eye ring, split by vertical bar, black bill, Pinkish horn ( with a slight purple component ) legs and feet.
Distribution
Found in West and Central Africa from Liberia over Cameroon and Zaire to Uganda.
Taxonomy
Two subspecies recognized:
- Z. p. princei from Liberia to Ivory Coast and Ghana
- Z. p. batesi in east Zaire and western Uganda
Habitat
Dense lowland forest.
