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

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family

Muscicapidae The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, Bluethroat (''Luscinia svecica)'' and Norther ...

. It is disjunctly present throughout the African tropical rainforest : * ''C. l. colstoni'' Tye, 1991 — Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast * ''C. l. leucosticta'' (Sharpe, 1883) — Ghana * ''C. l. collsi'' (Alexander, 1907) — se Central African Republic, ne DR Congo and w Uganda * ''C. l. reichenowi'' (Hartert, 1907) — western 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