Pulitzer's Longbill Macrosphenus pulitzeri Scientific name definitions

c. 12 cm. A rather small, dull brown, short-tailed, thin-billed warbler. Top of head, upperparts and tail are olive-brown, side of head grayer, flight feathers edged olive-brown; chin pale yellowish; underparts olive, breast side and flanks darker, belly more yellowish, thighs and undertail coverts cinnamon-brown; iris dirty white, bill dark horn above, pinkish on lower mandible; tarsi pinkish. Differs from similar M. concolor mainly in slightly larger size, with longer tail. Sexes alike. Juvenile undescribed.

Escarpment of W Angola from Cuanza Sul (Gabela) S to N Namibe (Camucui).

ENDANGERED. Restricted-range species: present in Western Angola EBA. Estimated global population fewer than 1000 individuals. Poorly known; has very small, fragmented range in forest which is probably declining both in surface area and in quality. Recently recorded from a forest block near Kumbira and from secondary bush near Uku (Vila Nova de Seles); probably present in other relict forest patches along the escarpment, but no confirmed data. Threatened both by forest clearance and by replacement of coffee plantations with slash-and-burn agriculture.