The forest scrub robin (Tychaedon leucosticta) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is disjunctly present throughout the African tropical rainforest. This species was formerly placed in the genus Cercotrichas.
Four subspecies are recognised:
- T. l. colstoni (Tye, 1991) â Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast
- T. l. leucosticta (Sharpe, 1883) â Ghana
- T. l. collsi (Alexander, 1907) â southeast Central African Republic, northeast DR Congo and west Uganda
- T. l. reichenowi (Hartert, EJO, 1907) â west Angola
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