From Opus

Pachycephala griseonota

Includes: Cinnamon-breasted Whistler

[edit] Identification

14 - 15.5cm. Nominate subspecies:

• Sooty grey crown, forehead and side of head
• Greyish-brown upperparts
• Dusky grey-brown upperwing and tail
• Off-white chin and throat
• Greyish-ochre breast
• Rusty ochre belly
• Black bill

Females are similar but more uniformely coloured. Immature similar to female.

• Kuehni is similar to nominate but has a tinged grey throat a duller grey-brown breast and a paler buffy ochre belly
• Lineolata is similar to kuehni but the back is greyer, the breast grey and the belly white
• Cinerascens has a browner back than lineolata, a darker breas and a white belly with a slight tinge of ochre
• Johni has olive-brown upperparts and uniform rusty cinnamon underparts

[edit] Distribution

Found on several islands of the Moluccas, Indonesia.
Common on some, uncommon on other islands.

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 6 subspecies:

• P. g. cinerascens on Tidore, Ternate, Halmahera, Bacan and Morotai
• P. g. lineolata on Sula Islands (Taliabu, Seho and Sulabesi)
• P. g. johni on Obi
• P. g. examinata on Buru
• P. g. griseonota on Seram
• P. g. kuehni on Kai Islands (Kai Besar, Tual, Kai Kecil)

Johni is sometimes treated as full species, Cinnamon-breasted Whistler.

[edit] Habitat

Lowland moist forests. Avoids mangroves. Occurs on some islands only in lowlands, on others like Seram up to 1100m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

Feeds on insects. Sometimes in mixed-species flocks.

[edit] Breeding

Juveniles recorded in September. No other information about breeding.
Resident species.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages