forest scrub-robin Cercotrichas leucosticta

A variable buff-brown scrub-robin with bold white on the tail tip, eyebrow, throat, and wing. Underparts are warm brown and rump is rufous. A secretive resident, found in pairs in primary lowland evergreen forest and thickets, entering farmbush and other secondary habitats, and scarp forest up to 1600 meters. It is often first detected by its varied up-and-down musical song “teee-tooo-tree-too-loo-dee-doo” and other similar delightful tunes. The similar Brown-backed Scrub-Robin differs from Forest Scrub-Robin by having a diffusely streaked breast and a rufous basal half of the tail.