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Alternative names: Brown Pitohui; Mottled Pitohui; Mottle-breasted Pitohui; Brown Wood-shrike

Pitohui incertus

[edit] Identification

21.5 - 23cm.

• Dark brown crown and upperparts
• Rufous tinged uppertail-coverts
• Dark brown upperwing and tail
• Brownish-white below
• Brown or dark brown mottled throat and upper breast, forming a band in some birds
• Dark brown eye
• Horn-brown bill

Sexes similar, juveniles undescribed.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to two small areas at upper River Fly and River Noord in west-central and east-central New Guinea.
Locally common in its tiny known range.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests, swamps, flat subcoastal plains.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on insects and fruits. Usually seen in dense vegetation and vine tangles. Joins mixed-species flocks.
Male in breeding condition recorded in August. No other information about breeding.
Resident 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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