The forest scrub robin (''Tychaedon leucosticta'') is a species of

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in the family

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. It is disjunctly present throughout the African tropical rainforest. This species was formerly placed in the genus '' Cercotrichas''. Four

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are recognised: * ''T. l. colstoni'' (Tye, 1991) – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast * ''T. l. leucosticta'' ( Sharpe, 1883) – Ghana * ''T. l. collsi'' (

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, 1907) – southeast Central African Republic, northeast DR Congo and west Uganda * ''T. l. reichenowi'' ( Hartert, EJO, 1907) – west Angola

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forest scrub robin Birds of the African tropical rainforest forest scrub robin Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Muscicapidae-stub