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 LC    White-headed Black-Chat* Id (Atlas):
    Myrmecocichla arnotti

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Pentholaea arnotti, Thamnolaea arnotti

Other Names (World)
Arnot's Chat, White-headed Black-Chat, Arnott's Chat, Arnott's Black-chat

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Tristram, 1869)

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (16)...)

 
Arnot's Chat (Myrmecocichla arnotti) [XC365279]
     by Frank Lambert from Liwonde NP southern area, Machinga, Southern Region, Malawi (call)

 
Arnot's Chat (Myrmecocichla arnotti) [XC398146]
     by Dries Van de Loock from Lukusuzi NP, Eastern province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed in genus Thamnolaea or Myrmecocichla. Subspecies harterti distinctive. If vocally different, may merit species status.

Proposed subspecies leucolaema (Rwanda and Burundi) merged with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • harterti Neunzig, 1926   -  Angola.
  • arnotti (Tristram, 1869)   -  Rwanda and Burundi south to Zambia, central Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa.



References
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Files:
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