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Alternative name: New Caledonian Mountain Cuckoo-shrike

Coracina analis

Analisoma analis

[edit] Identification

24 - 28cm.

• Leaden grey above, paler below
• Blackish alula and flight-feathers
• Rufous-chestnut underwing-coverts, bend of wing and undertail-coverts
• Orange-yellow to dark brown eye
• Blackish bill and legs

Sexes similar but females are smaller than males.
Juveniles have brownish wings and are variegated rufous-white and blackish below.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to New Caledonia (Grand Terre and Ile des Pins).
Fairly common restricted-range species.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It's sometimes placed in the genus Analisoma.

[edit] Habitat

Dense primary mountain forest above 200m.

[edit] Behaviour

No information about diet or breeding.

[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 Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2005. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334726

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID