The brown scrub robin (''Tychaedon signata'') is a species of

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in the family

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. It is found in

Eswatini Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...

Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...

and,

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. Its natural

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is subtropical dry or moist

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s. This species was formerly placed in the genus '' Cercotrichas''.

Races

There are two accepted races: * ''T. s. signata'' – South African coastal bush and Afromontane forest :Description: Greyish brown plumage * ''T. s. 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.

References

External links

* Brown (scrub) robin
Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
brown scrub robin Birds of Southern Africa brown scrub robin Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Muscicapidae-stub