Avibase: Apalis [cinerea or alticola] (Grey or Brown-headed Apalis)

Grey or Brown-headed Apalis

Apalis [cinerea or alticola] (= Apalis cinerea) (Sharpe, RB 1891)

The grey apalis is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Cisticolidae
Genus:
   Apalis
Scientific:
  Apalis cinerea

Original description

Citation:
(Sharpe, RB 1891)

Reference:
Ibis ser.6, vol.3, no.9 p.120

Protonym:
Euprinodes cinereus

Type locality:
Mt. Elgon.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55012#page/152/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
42F5E0BE85C50D76

Avibase ID:
avibase-42F5E0BE

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/42F5E0BE

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 558682

Geographic range:

Apalis cinerea: disjunctly in foothill and montane forest and secondary growth of southeastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon, and Bioko (Gulf of Guinea), and from northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern South Sudan, and western Kenya southward to Burundi and northern Tanzania, and western Angola
Apalis cinerea cinerea: southern South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and northern Tanzania
Apalis cinerea funebris: montane forest of Nigeria and Cameroon
Apalis cinerea sclateri: Mount Cameroon; Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)
Apalis cinerea grandis: western Angola
Apalis alticola: foothill and montane forest, and secondary growth, from northern and central Angola and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo eastward to northern Tanzania, and southward to northern Zambia and Malawi
Apalis alticola alticola: northwestern Tanzania, northern Malawi, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northern Zambia
Apalis alticola dowsetti: southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Marungu Plateau)
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Source: Clements checklist

English:
Grey or Brown-headed Apalis
French:
Apalis cendrée ou A. à tête brune

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Grey or Brown-headed Apalis ( Apalis [cinerea or alticola])
Birdlife checklist version 00: Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 01: Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 02: Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 03: Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 04: Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Grey Apalis ( Apalis cinerea) [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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