African Shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) [XC291650]
by Martin St-Michel from Budongo Forest, Uganda (call)
African Shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) [XC719266]
by id from Kakum National Park, Ghana (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).