Black Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas podobe) [XC595810]
by Gregory Askew from Madinatal Umran, Al Ahsa, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (uncertain)
Black Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas podobe) [XC783654]
by David Darrell-Lambert from Sindia (near Ndayane), M'bour, R\u00e9gion de Thi\u00e8s, Senegal (song)
Subspecies
Differs from Erythropygia in generally larger size and distinctively black plumage. Subspecies melanoptera apparently intergrades with nominate in western Arabia, where sample of museum skins revealed 25% showing traces of rufous in wing.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
podobe (Müller, 1776) - Southern Mauritania and northern Senegal east to north-eastern Sudan, northern Ethiopia and western Arabia. Non-breeding also northern Somalia.
melanoptera (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) - Western, central and southern Arabian Peninsula.