Range Description

Zoothera crossleyi is found in south-eastern Nigeria (on the Obudu and Mambilla Plateaux and Gotel Mountains), Cameroon (from Mt Cameroon and the Rumpi Hills in the south-west to Mt Tchabal Mbabo on the Adamawa Plateau³), southern Congo and north-east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)⁵. In Nigeria, it was found to be common at Chappal Waddi in the Gotel Mountains but less numerous elsewhere in 1988¹. In Cameroon, it was quite common to very common in the north Bakossi Mountains in 1998 and on Mt Nlonako in 1999^2,3, and was also discovered on the southern slopes of Mt Manenguba in 1999³ and seen again there in 2000⁴.