Brown-chested Alethe
Chamaetylas poliocephala
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Genus
- Chamaetylas
- eBird Code
- brcale1
Subspecies (9)
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Chamaetylas poliocephala akeleyae
Kenya east of the Rift Valley
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Chamaetylas poliocephala carruthersi
southeastern Central African Republic eastward to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Kenya
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Chamaetylas poliocephala compsonota
Nigeria and Cameroon to northwestern Angola (Quicolungo); Bioko
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Chamaetylas poliocephala giloensis
southeastern South Sudan (Imatong Mountains), population in adjacent northeastern Uganda presumably also this subspecies
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Chamaetylas poliocephala hallae
Angola (Gabela escarpment of Cuanza Sul)
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Chamaetylas poliocephala kungwensis
western Tanzania (Kungwe-Mahari Mountains)
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Chamaetylas poliocephala poliocephala
Sierra Leone to Ghana
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Chamaetylas poliocephala ufipae
southwestern Tanzania (Ufipa Plateau) and southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Chamaetylas poliocephala vandeweghei
Rwanda and Burundi
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.