Rwenzori hill babbler explained

The Rwenzori hill babbler (Sylvia atriceps) is a species of passerine bird in the family Sylviidae that is found in Africa.

The Rwenzori hill babbler was described by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1902 and given the binomial name Turdinus atriceps. The type locality is the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^{[1] [2]} The specific epithet atriceps is from the Latin ater for "black" and -ceps for "capped" or "headed".^[3] The Rwenzori hill babbler was formerly considered to be a conspecific with the African hill babbler.^[4] The species is monotypic.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Sharpe . Richard Bowdler . Richard Bowdler Sharpe . 1902 . Turdinus atriceps . Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . 13 . 10 .
2. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1964 . Check-list of Birds of the World . 10 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 412–413 .
3. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 59 .
4. Web site: Collar . N. . Robson . C. . 2017 . Ruwenzori Hill-babbler (Sylvia atriceps) . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 8 September 2017 . subscription .
5. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2017 . Sylviid babblers, parrotbills & white-eyes . World Bird List Version 7.3 . International Ornithologists' Union . 7 September 2017 .