Red-fronted prinia
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The red-fronted prinia (Prinia rufifrons), also known as the red-fronted warbler and the red-faced apalis, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Taxonomy
The red-fronted prinia was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840 under the binomial name Prinia rufifrons. The type locality is Eritrea (the coastal region of Abyssinia).[1][2] The specific epithet rufifrons comes from the Latin rufus for "red" and frons for "forehead" or "front".[3]
There are three subspecies:[4]
- P. r. rufifrons Rüppell, 1840 – Chad to northwest Somalia
- P. r. smithi (Sharpe, 1895) – southeast Sudan to central Somalia and north Tanzania
- P. r. rufidorsalis (Sharpe, 1897) – southeast Kenya
Many taxonomists place this species in the genus Prinia rather than in its own monotypic genus Urorhipis.[5][6] Support for this alternative placement is provided by a molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 that found that the red-fronted warbler was closely related to the prinias.[7]
References
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- Ryan, Peter (2006). Family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and allies). pp. 378–492 in del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D.A. (2006) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11. Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers Lynx Edicions, Barcelona Template:ISBN