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Alternative name: Grey-throated Greenbul, Western Greenbul
- Arizelocichla tephrolaema
Andropadus tephrolaemus
Identification
Distribution
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria
Taxonomy
Two subspecies recognized:
- A. t. bamendae in southeast Nigeria and adjacent western Cameroon
- A. t. tephrolaema in southwest Cameroon and Bioko
The subspecies kikuyuensis (Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo) is placed in this species by Dickinson, Clements places it in Eastern Mountain Greenbul, Gill and Donsker accept it as full species.
This species was formerly placed in the genus Andropadus.
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2011. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.9). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Western Mountain Greenbul. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Western_Mountain_Greenbul
