Mountain robin-chat

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Mountain robin-chat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cossyphicula
Species:
C. isabellae
Binomial name
Cossyphicula isabellae
(GR Gray, 1862)
A white-bellied robin chat bird, with a dark orange neck.
The white-bellied robin-chat.

The mountain robin-chat (Cossyphicula isabellae) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

It is native to the Western High Plateau. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2023 found that the mountain robin-chat was sister to the white-bellied robin-chat.[2] Based on this result the mountain robin-chat was moved from the genus Cossypha to the genus Cossyphicula.[3]

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