Chestnut Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia castanea)

Other Scientific Names
Dyaphorophyia castanea [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Family
Platysteiridae (Batises And Wattle-eyes)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
Fraser, 1843

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (41)...)

Chestnut Wattle-eye (Platysteira castanea) [XC659018]
by BurBenj from Bakoumba, Lekoko, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon (uncertain)

Chestnut Wattle-eye (Platysteira castanea) [XC246402]
by Martin St-Michel from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

hormophora Fraser, 1843 - Sierra Leone east to Benin. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, West African Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia hormophora).
castanea (Fraser, 1843) - Southern Nigeria to southern Sudan, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania (Bukoba), south to northern Angola (north of 10�S), southern DRCongo (Kasaji, in Katanga) and extreme northern Zambia (Mwinilunga); Bioko I (Fernando P�o).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Chestnut Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia castanea) - 10 files

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