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Alternative names: Yellow-flanked Whistler; Celebes Whistler; Sulawesi Whistler; Celebes Mountain Whistler; Buff-throated Thickhead; Buff-throated Whistler

Hylocitrea bonensis

Photo by Rob Hutchinson
Location: Lore Lindu National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia

[edit] Identification

14 - 15cm.

• Greenish-olive head
• Dark olive-brown crown
• Brighter ear-coverts, duskier lores
• Brownish slate-grey upperparts, wing washed olive
• Brownish slate-grey tail and upperwing
• Underparts also brownish slate-grey, a bit lighter than back
• Brownish-cinnamon undertail-coverts
• Bonthaina has more yellow flanks

Female like male but with cinnamon-buff throat with grey streaking and yellowish-olive crown

[edit] Similar species

May be confused with female Maroon-backed Whistler.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to Sulawesi (Indonesia).
Moderately common at higher elevations. Restricted-range species.

[edit] Taxonomy

Two subspecies accepted:

• H. b. bonensis in the mountains of north, central and southeast Sulawesi
• H. b. bonthaina on Mount Lompobattang in southwest Sulawesi

Sometimes placed in genus Pachycephala.

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes, mainly at 2000 - 3500m.

[edit] Behaviour

Has been seen feeding on berries and some arthropods, but little known. Forages in middle storey and understorey.
No information about breeding.
Probably a sedentary species.

[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.
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

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