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Cacomantis variolosus
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Description
BRUSH CUCKOO Cacomantis variolosus #
Local name Man Womofèr (Sansundi).
Range C. v. infaustus Biak, Supiori, Owi, Numfor, Yapen. No records from Mios Num.
Taxonomy Beehler & Pratt (2016) did not recognise C. v. chivae which formerly was regarded as a subspecies endemic to Biak (Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939).
Status Resident. Widespread and generally common in selectively logged forest, secondary woodland and primary forest edge. KDB found it to c. 305 m on Supiori. February 1991: recorded on Owi (Gibbs 1993), where seen again on 13 January 1994 (P. Gregory in litt. 2000).
Notes
Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Vigors & Horsfield
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- Genus
- Cacomantis
- Species
- variolosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cacomantis variolosus (Vigors, 1827) sec. Bishop, 2023
References
- Mayr, E. & Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1939. Zoological results of the Denison-Crockett Expedition to the South Pacific for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937 - 1938. Part I. The birds of the island of Biak. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 91: 1 - 37.
- Gibbs, D. 1993. Irian Jaya 1991. Unpubl. report.