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Platysteira concreta

[edit] Identification

Length 9 cm. The eye-wattle is green and smaller in the female than the male. Dark grey-green upperparts; underparts yellow with varying chestnut markings.

[edit] Distribution

Tropical Africa: Discontinuous distribution from Sierra Leone to western Kenya, western Tanzania and Angola.

[edit] Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized:^[1]

• P.c. concreta
• P.c. ansorgei
• P.c. graueri
• P.c. kungwensis

This species is placed in the genus Dyaphorophyia by some authorities.^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Forest understorey.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Vocalisation

A wheeo whistle, followed by a rapid chik chik.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

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