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Somali Crombec
Sylvietta isabellina Elliot, DG, 1897
Macrosphenidae — Crombecs, African Warblers
Somali Crombec, Sylvietta isabellina, is a passerine in the Macrosphenidae family and breeds in eastern Africa, from Ethiopia and Somalia through south-east South Sudan and Kenya to north-east Tanzania. It was described by Elliot in 1897. It is an African warbler and is found in dry shrubland. A form called gaekwari, named for the Maharaja of Baroda Sayajirao Gaekwad III, has been treated as the same as the nominate bird.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Macrosphenidae — Crombecs, African Warblers
- Breeding range
- Africa: e Ethiopia, Somalia and se South Sudan through Kenya to ne Tanzania
