The Eastern Forest Robin (Stiphrornis xanthogaster) is a small species of bird found at low levels in forests from Cameroon and Gabon to DR Congo and Uganda. It was considered a subspecies of S. erythrothorax until 1999, when it was recommended that it should be treated as a separate species. IUCN and some other authorities do not recognize the split, and consequently it has not been rated as species separate from S. erythrothorax. However, it has been described as frequent to locally abundant, and is therefore unlikely to qualify for a threatened category.