Violet-backed Hyliota (Hyliota violacea) [XC719204]
by id from Kakum National Park, Ghana (call)
Subspecies
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.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
nehrkorni Hartlaub, 1892 - Eastern Sierra Leone, south-eastern Guinea, northern and eastern Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, southern Ghana, southern Togo (Misahohe) and south-western Nigeria.
violacea Verreaux & Verreaux, 1851 - South-eastern Nigeria and north, western and southern Cameroon south to north-western and south-western PRCongo; central and eastern DRCongo (Salonga National Park, R Tshuapa, Manyema, Itombwe) and south-western Rwanda (Nyungwe Forest).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet