Yellow-throated Leaflove (Atimastillas flavicollis) [XC338951]
by Bram Piot from Chiengi-Kaputa road, Luapula province, Zambia (call)
Yellow-throated Leaflove (Atimastillas flavicollis) [XC475334]
by Joost van Bruggen from Le Firdou, Kolda, Casamance, Senegal (song)
Subspecies
Despite generic placement, appears on basis of voice and behaviour to be closest to Swamp Palm Bulbul (Thescelocichla leucopleura) and Leaf-love (Pyrrhurus scandens). Has been suggested that nominate subspecies and soror may represent two different species, as the two occur to within 50 km of each other in Cameroon, but with no intergrades known. Additionally, some vocal differences exist, and nominate in Mali recently shown not to respond to playback of song of soror. Further study is needed. Subspecies identity of population in north-western Central African Republic uncertain, tentatively placed in nominate.
Proposed subspecies simplicicolor (eastern Cameroon) considered not safely distinguishable from soror; pallidigula (described from Entebbe, in Uganda) on average rather darker overall than flavigula, but not satisfactorily separable from it.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
flavicollis (Swainson, 1837) - Senegambia and south-western Mali east to Nigeria, northern Cameroon (Adamaoua Plateau) and north-western Central Africa Republic, south to Sierra Leone, northern Ivory Coast, south-eastern Ghana and southern Benin.
soror (Neumann, 1914) - North-central Cameroon (Tibati) east to southern Central African Republic and south-western Sudan, south to PRCongo and central DRCongo (south to northern Kasai and northern Maniema). Also west-central Ethiopia.
flavigula (Cabanis, 1880) - Angola, south-eastern and eastern DRCongo (southern from southern Kasai, southern Maniema and Kivu), Uganda, western Kenya and western Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Pale-throated Greenbul (Atimastillas flavigula).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet