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Mouse-colored Penduline Tit
Anthoscopus musculus (Hartlaub, 1882)
Remizidae — Penduline Tits
Mouse-colored Penduline Tit, Anthoscopus musculus, is a bird of the family Remizidae that breeds in Africa from central Ethiopia and South Sudan through Somalia and Kenya to northern Tanzania and north-eastern Uganda. It is a species of dry savannah and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The bird is one of the two shortest native birds in Africa, sharing that distinction with the tit hylia. It was first described in 1882 by Gustav Hartlaub. No subspecies are recognised.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Remizidae — Penduline Tits
- Breeding range
- Africa: c Ethiopia and South Sudan to Somalia, Kenya, n Tanzania and ne Uganda
