African Shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) [XC216304]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (flight call)
African Shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) [XC444796]
by Peter Boesman from Main Road, Kakamega Forest, Kenya (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes treated as a subgenus of Bias. Proposed subspecies carolathi (from Angola) considered synonymous with aequatorialis.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
flammulatus (Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855) - Forests from Gambia (one record) and Guinea east, including Bioko I (Fernando Póo), to western DRCongo.
aequatorialis Jackson, 1904 - Forests of central DRCongo, northern Angola and Uganda, and very locally southern Sudan (Bengengai), north-western Tanzania (Minziro Forest), western Kenya (Kakamega and Nandi Forests); disjunctly southern DRCongo (Kasaji, in Katanga) and neighbouring north-western Zambia (Mwinilunga district).