Rwenzori hill babbler

Rwenzori hill babbler
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Genus: Sylvia
Species:
S. atriceps
Binomial name
Sylvia atriceps
(Sharpe, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Sylvia atriceps

The Rwenzori hill babbler (Sylvia atriceps) is a species of passerine bird in the family Sylviidae that is found in Africa.

The Rwenzori hill babbler was described by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1902 and given the binomial name Turdinus atriceps. The type locality is the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2][3] The specific epithet atriceps is from the Latin ater for "black" and -ceps for "capped" or "headed".[4] The Rwenzori hill babbler was formerly considered to be a conspecific with the African hill babbler.[5] The species is monotypic.[6]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Sylvia atriceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103872756A104154463. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103872756A104154463.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1902). "Turdinus atriceps". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 13: 10.
  3. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 412–413.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ^ Collar, N.; Robson, C. (2017). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Ruwenzori Hill-babbler (Sylvia atriceps)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  6. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills & white-eyes". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 September 2017.