Brown-headed Apalis
Apalis alticola(Shelley, GE, 1899)
English (US) Brown-headed Apalis
The Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Apalis alticola
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-headed Apalis
- Described by
- (Shelley, GE, 1899)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Apalis alticola dowsetti
- Apalis alticola alticola
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Cisticola alticola
- Described by
- (Shelley, GE, 1899)
- Type locality
- Nyasaland = Fife, fide Shelley, 1899 (July), Ibis, pp. 365, 373 = Isoka, Zambia.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 8 p.35
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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