The black-crowned tchagra has a black crown and eye stripes separated by a white supercilium. The underparts are pale gray and the upperparts are pale brown. the folded wings are chestnut and the tail is black with a white tip. The bill is black. I saw one in Murchison Falls NP in Uganda. It mainly eats insects, including grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, caterpillars, wasps, cicadas, termites, worms, spiders, scorpions, snails, frogs, small lizards and snakes and small fruits.
There are 10 subspecies and I saw ssp. armenus which is found from south Cameroon east to northern DRC, South Sudan and Uganda, south and west to Angola, east to Kenya (except the coast), Tanzania (except the east lowlands), Malawi, northwest Mozambique and northern Zimbabwe.
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| Illustration of ssp. senegalus from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. |
Your picture and the art are just about identical, right down to the pose.
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