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The white-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha albicapilla) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. The white-crowned robin-chat is the largest of the 14 species of robin-chat with a total body length of nearly 11 inches. It has a black head with a conspicuous white crown, black back, wings and tail and an orange belly. The sexes are similar. They live in woodlands, gallery forests, shrublands, and savannahs of West Africa from the Senegal east to Ethiopia, and from Mali south to Nigeria. These robin-chats appear to be monogamous and territorial during the breeding season, but sometimes gather into small feeding flocks during the winter. The female lays two somewhat glossy grey-green eggs with violet spots in a cup shaped stick nest.