{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | name = Mountain robin-chat | image = Cossyphicula isabellae - martin ingemansson - 470067870.jpeg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International. |year=2024 |title=''Cossyphicula isabellae'' |volume=2024 |article-number=e.T22709763A263929613 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22709763A263929613.en |access-date=9 February 2025}}</ref> | genus = Cossyphicula | species = isabellae | authority = (GR Gray, 1862) | synonyms = }}
The '''mountain robin-chat''' ('''''Cossyphicula isabellae''''') is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
It is native to the Western High Plateau. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2023 found that the mountain robin-chat was sister to the white-bellied robin-chat.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Zhao | first1=M. | last2=Gordon Burleigh | first2=J. | last3=Olsson | first3=U. | last4=Alström | first4=P. | last5=Kimball | first5=R.T. | date=2023 | title=A near-complete and time-calibrated phylogeny of the Old World flycatchers, robins and chats (Aves, Muscicapidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=178 | article-number=107646 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107646 | doi-access=free }}</ref> Based on this result the mountain robin-chat was moved from the genus ''Cossypha'' to the genus ''Cossyphicula''.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2023 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=21 July 2023}}</ref>
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