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Sharpe's apalis
Sharpe's
apalis
is a
species
of
bird
in the family
Cisticolidae
.
It is found in
Côte d'Ivoire
,
Ghana
,
Guinea
,
Liberia
, and
Sierra Leone
.
Its
natural
habitats
are
subtropical or tropical dry forest
and
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
.
Sharpe's apalis was described by the
English
ornithologist
George Ernest Shelley
in
1884
. He coined the
binomial name
Apalis sharpii
. Both the common name and the
specific epithet
honour the English ornithologist and
museum curator
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
.