Brown scrub robin

Brown scrub robin
	Adult at St Lucia, South Africa
	Juvenile in Mkhuze G. R., South Africa
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Cercotrichas
Species:	C. signata
Binomial name
	Cercotrichas signata; (Sundevall, 1850)
Synonyms
	Erythropygia signata

The brown scrub robin (Cercotrichas signata) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Eswatini, Mozambique and, South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical dry or moist forests.

Races

There are two accepted races:^[2]

Cercotrichas signata subsp. signata – South African coastal bush and Afromontane forest

Description: Greyish brown plumage

Cercotrichas signata subsp. tongensis – coastal plain from northern KZN to southern Mozambique

Description: Smaller with shorter bill. Paler brown plumage above and warmer buff plumage below. More conspicuous supercilium and moustache stripe.

^ BirdLife International (2012). "Erythropygia signata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.old-form url
^ Chittenden, H.; et al. (2012). Roberts geographic variation of southern African birds. Cape Town: JVBBF. pp. 202–203. ISBN 978-1-920602-00-0.

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