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Alternative names: Rufous-breasted Whistler; Rusty-breasted Whistler; Brownish Whistler; Red-bellied Robin-whistler

Pachycephala hyperythra

[edit] Identification

15cm.

• Dark slaty grey forehead, lores and crown
• Dusky brown ear-coverts
• Warm olive-brown upperparts with dusky upperwings
• White chin, throat and malar region
• Light rufous underparts
• Dark brown iris
• Black bill

Sexes alike, juveniles have rufous plumage.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to New Guinea.
Locally common.

[edit] Taxonomy

Four subspecies recognized:

• P. h. hyperythra in the mountains of northwest, west and east-central New Guinea
• P. h. sepikiana in north New Guinea
• P. h. reichenowi on Huon Peninsula in northeast New Guinea
• P. h. salvadorii in southeast New Guinea

[edit] Habitat

Forest, mainly at 400 - 1200m. Replaced by Grey Whistler in the lowlands and by Sclater's Whistler higher up but with overlap.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on insects. Forages mainly in lower storey and undergrowth.
Breeding recorded in November. The nest is a large cup made of ferns, tendrils and moss. Lays 2 eggs.
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.
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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