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Alternative name: Madagascar Cuckoo-shrike

Coracina cinerea

Includes: Comoros Cuckoo-shrike

[edit] Identification

Black head, light grey underparts, dark grey upperparts. Female has dark grey head.

[edit] Distribution

Comoros, Madagascar, and Mayotte.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

3 subspecies recognized:

• C. c. cinera in northern and eastern Madagascar
• C. c. pallida in central, western and south-western Madagascar
• C. c. cucullata on the Comoro Islands

Cucullata is sometimes split as Comoros Cuckoo-shrike, Coracina cucullata.

The birds from Moheli Island are sometimes put in the subspecies moheliensis which is not accepted by everyone.

[edit] Habitat

Dry and moist forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

• List of references

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