Cossypha

Cossypha are small insectivorous birds, with most species called robin-chats. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now more often treated as part of the Old World flycatcher Muscicapidae.^{[citation needed]}

Cossypha
Snowy-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha niveicapilla)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Cossypha Vigors, 1825
Type species
Turdus vociferans[1] Swainson, 1823

These are African woodland dwelling species, but some have become adapted to sites around human habitation.

The name Cossypha for the genus was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825.^[2] The word comes from the Classical Greek kossuphos for a blackbird or thrush.^[3]

The genus contains the following eight species:^[4]

Image	Common Name	Scientific Name	Distribution
	White-crowned robin-chat	Cossypha albicapillus	Sudanian savanna
	White-browed robin-chat	Cossypha heuglini	Sub-Saharan Africa (rare in western and southern Africa)
	Chorister robin-chat	Cossypha dichroa	eastern southern Africa
	Rüppell's robin-chat	Cossypha semirufa	eastern Afromontane
	Snowy-crowned robin-chat	Cossypha niveicapilla	northern Sub-Saharan Africa
	Red-capped robin-chat	Cossypha natalensis	central and eastern Sub-Saharan Africa
-	White-headed robin-chat	Cossypha heinrichi	northern Angola and western DR Congo
-	Blue-shouldered robin-chat	Cossypha cyanocampter	African tropical rainforest