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Alternative name: Brown Warbler
- Curruca lugens
Sylvia lugens
Identification
Distribution
Tropical Africa: From Sudan and Ethiopia in the north to Zambia and Malawi in the south.
Taxonomy
This is a polytypic species[1] consisting of 5 subspecies.
Formerly placed in the genus Parisoma.
Subspecies
Gray-vented
- C. l. griseiventris:
- Southern Ethiopia (Bale Mountains)
Brown
- C. l. lugens:
- C. l. jacksoni:
- C. l. prigoginei:
- Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Itombwe Mountains)
- C. l. clara:
- Tanzania (Matengo Highlands)
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Brown Parisoma. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 March 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown_Parisoma
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.