Victorin's warbler

Victorin's warbler (Cryptillas victorini) or Victorin's scrub warbler, is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It was recently split from the genus Bradypterus and now belongs to a monotypic genus Cryptillas.

Victorin's warbler
Painted by Joseph Wolf, 1866
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Macrosphenidae
Genus:	Cryptillas Oberholser, 1899
Species:	C. victorini
Binomial name
Cryptillas victorini (Sundevall, 1860)
Synonyms
Bradypterus victorini

It is endemic to the fynbos of South Africa's coastal Afromontane area.

The common name and scientific name commemorates Johan Fredrik Victorin (1831-1855), a Swedish traveler who visited South Africa.^[2]