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 LC    Moustached Grass-Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Melocichla mentalis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Moustached Grass-Warbler, African Moustached Warbler, Moustached Scrub-warbler, Moustached Grass Warbler

Family
Macrosphenidae (Crombecs And Allies)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Fraser, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Mauritania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (67)...)

 
Moustached Grass Warbler (Melocichla mentalis) [XC485976]
     by Simon Gillings from Mpak, Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal (song)

 
Moustached Grass Warbler (Melocichla mentalis) [XC513864]
     by Arnon Dattner from Nairobi National Park (near Nairobi), Nairobi, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
Genus has sometimes been merged with Sphenoeacus, and present species then placed in a superspecies with Cape Grass-Warbler (Sphenoeacus afer) and Rockrunner (Achaetops pycnopygius). However, Rockrunner (Achaetops pycnopygius), now classed as a babbler (Timaliidae), Cape Grass-Warbler (Sphenoeacus afer) and Moustached Grass-Warbler (Melocichla mentalis) are now thought not to be closely related. Subspecies amauroura intergrades with nominate in Uele region of eastern DRCongo.

Proposed subspecies incana known only from type locality of Momella, on Mt Meru (north-eastern Tanzania). More information is required in order to confirm validity.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • mentalis (Fraser, 1843)   -  Southern Senegal south to northern Liberia, and east to Central African Republic and northern DRCongo; southern Gabon east to southern DRCongo (east to Kasai and Maniema); northern and west-central Angola and north-western Zambia.
  • amauroura (Pelzeln, 1883)   -  Southern Sudan and south-western Ethiopia south to eastern DRCongo, Uganda, western, central and south-eastern Kenya, western and northern Tanzania (southern, in north-east, to Kilimanjaro and Arusha) and northern and central Zambia.
  • orientalis (Sharpe, 1883)   -  Eastern and southern Tanzania, Malawi and adjacent eastern Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe highlands, and northern and central Mozambique.
  • luangwae Benson, 1958   -  Eastern Zambia (plateau of eastern Province).
  • incana Diesselhorst, 1959   -  North-eastern Tanzania (Mt. Meru).



References
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Files:
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