Tribe ORIOLINI
Oriolus melanotis OLIVE-BROWN ORIOLE. Forest. Roti,
Timor and Wetar is. in the Lesser Sundas.
Oriolus bouroensis BLACK-EARED ORIOLE. Forest. Buru
I. in the s Moluccas and the Tanimbar Is.
Oriolus forsteni GREY-COLLARED ORIOLE. Forest. Seram
I. in the s Moluccas.
Oriolus phaeochromus DUSKY-BROWN ORIOLE. Forest.
Halmahera I. in the n Moluccas.
Oriolus szalayi BROWN ORIOLE. Forest edge, scrub, mangroves.
Up to 1475 m in the w Papuan islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati and Misool;
and New Guinea.
Oriolus sagittatus OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE. Forest edge, woods,
savanna. Lowlands from ne W. Australia e along coasts and islands
of n N. Territory to Queensland, s through e New S. Wales to se S. Australia,
w to Adelaide and the Mt. Lofty Range.
Oriolus flavocinctus GREEN ORIOLE. Forest. Lowlands
on the Lesser Sunda Is. of Leti, Moa and Romang; Aru Is.; s New Guinea
from Wassi Kussa River to Princess Marianne Strait; coastal n Australia
in ne W. Australia, w to Derby; n N. Territory and n Queensland from the
Cape York Peninsula s to Staaten River and Ingham.
Oriolus xanthonotus DARK-THROATED ORIOLE. Forest, edge,
second growth. Up to 1200 m in the Malay Peninsula; Sumatra, incl.
Mentawai Is. and Bangka; Java; Borneo and adj. islands; sw Philippines
on Calamian Is. and Palawan.
Oriolus steerii PHILIPPINE ORIOLE. Forest, edge, second
growth. Lowlands on the c,s Philippine Is. of Masbate, Samar, Leyte,
Negros, Bohol, Mindanao, Basilan and the Sulu Arch. Formerly on Cebu.
Sometimes treated as a race of O. xanthonotus.
Oriolus albiloris WHITE-LORED ORIOLE. Forest. Mts.
of n,cw Luzon, Philippine Is. May be conspecific with steerii.
Oriolus isabellae ISABELA ORIOLE. Forest, second growth.
Mts. of n,cw Luzon, Philippine Is.
Oriolus oriolus EURASIAN GOLDEN-ORIOLE. Deciduous woods.
From se England, continental Europe, s Sweden and s Finland e across c,se
Russia to w Siberia and s to nw Africa (Morocco, n Algeria), n Mediterranean
region, incl. Corsica, Sicily and Cyprus; Turkey, w,n Iran s Russia, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, n India, w China and w,n Mongolia.
Oriolus auratus AFRICAN GOLDEN-ORIOLE. Deciduous woods.
Senegambia, sw Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory
Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, s Niger, Cameroon, Gabon,
Congo, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad and s Sudan to Ethiopia and s Somalia, s (exc.
in w,c heavy forests) to Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania,
Malawi, Zambia, Angola, c Namibia, n,e Botswana, Zimbabwe, w Mozambique
and ne S. Africa in n,e Transvaal and Swaziland.
Oriolus chinensis BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE. Woods, forest, bamboo,
coconut groves. Up to 2100 m from se Siberia s through c,e,s China
incl. Hainan I., and Korea to Taiwan, n Laos and n Vietnam; Nicobar, Andaman
and Greater Sunda Is. incl. most adj. islands, e to Talaud, Sula and Tukanbesi
is., Mayu I. in the n Moluccas; Lesser Sundas e to Sumba, Flores and Alor;
Philippines incl. Calamian Is. and Sulu Arch.
Oriolus tenuirostris SLENDER-BILLED ORIOLE. Woods, forest,
scrub. Foothills and mts. to 4300 m from e India, sw China, Burma,
n Laos and s Vietnam. Although reported as sympatric with O. chinensis,
hybrids are frequent.
Oriolus chlorocephalus GREEN-HEADED ORIOLE. Forest.
Mts. in extreme se Kenya, c,e Tanzania, Malawi and c Mozambique.
Oriolus crassirostris SAO TOME ORIOLE. Forest. São
Tomé I. in the Gulf of Guinea off w Africa.
O. crassirostris, brachyrhynchus, monacha, larvatus, percivali
and nigripennis were treated as a superspecies by Short, et al. 1990. Proc.
West. Found. Vert. Zool. 4(3).
Oriolus brachyrhynchus WESTERN BLACK-HEADED ORIOLE. Forest.
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, s Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, c C. African Rep., s Sudan, n,ne Zaire,
Uganda and w Kenya s to nw Angola and cs,ce Zaire. May be conspecific
with monacha.
Oriolus monacha DARK-HEADED ORIOLE. Juniper forest.
Highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Oriolus larvatus AFRICAN BLACK-HEADED ORIOLE. Open woods,
forest. Angola, sw C. African Rep., sc,se,ce,ne Zaire, se Sudan,
s Ethiopia and s Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia,
Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, n Namibia, n,e Botswana and e,s S. Africa
in Transvaal, Swaziland, e,se Cape Province.
Oriolus percivali BLACK-TAILED ORIOLE. Humid forest.
Mts. in ne,ce Zaire, Uganda,Rwanda, Burundi, w,c Kenya and w Tanzania.
Often included in larvatus; they hybridize where they come into contact,
which is happening more often as their habitats are modified by man (Dowsett
and Dowsett-Lemaire, 1993).
Oriolus nigripennis BLACK-WINGED ORIOLE. Forest.
Lowlands in Sierra Leone, se Guinea Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo,
Benin, Nigeria, Gulf of Guinea Is., s Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Congo, C. Afr. Rep., nw,nc,n,ne Zaire, extreme se Sudan and w Uganda, s
to nw Angola and sw Zaire.
Oriolus xanthornus BLACK-HOODED ORIOLE. Forest, woods,
towns. Up to 1200 m in India, Sri Lanka, sw China and se Asia (exc.
n Vietnam), Andaman Is., n,e Sumatra and coastal ne Borneo and adj. islands.
Oriolus hosii BLACK ORIOLE. Forest. Mts. above 900
m in n Sarawak (n Borneo).
Oriolus cruentus BLACK-AND-CRIMSON ORIOLE. Forest.
Mts. 500-2400 m in Malaya, Sumatra, Java and n Borneo.
Oriolus traillii MAROON ORIOLE. Forest. Hills and
mts., 600-4000 m in the Himalayan foothills from n,e India, sw China, se
Asia (exc. Malay Peninsula) and Taiwan.
Oriolus mellianus SILVER ORIOLE. Forest. Mts. to
1450 m of s,c China in n Kwantung, Kwangsi and Szechwan.
Sphecotheres hypoleucus WETAR FIGBIRD. Forest, edge, scrub,
towns. Lowlands of Wetar I. in the c Lesser Sunda Is.
Sphecotheres viridis GREEN FIGBIRD. Forest, edge, scrub,
towns.
The several subspecies have been treated as species, but they
intergrade in contact zones.
S. v. viridis. Lowlands on Roti and Timor islands in the
c Lesser Sunda Islands.
S. v. flaviventris. Kai Is.; nw,n,e W. Australia (Kimberleys),
n N. Territory and Queensland s to Karumba and Ingham.
S. v. vieilloti. Se New Guinea coastal lowlands in the
Port Moresby and Milne Bay areas; from se Queensland n to Townsville; s
to se New S. Wales s of Sydney.
Coracina maxima GROUND CUCKOOSHRIKE. Open woods, savanna,
bare ground. Interior Australia; absent from nw W. Australia, n N.
Territory, n,se Queensland, coastal Victoria, S. Australia, Tasmania.
Coracina larvata SUNDA CUCKOOSHRIKE. Humid forest.
Mts., 850-2200 m in Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
Coracina macei LARGE CUCKOOSHRIKE. Open forest, savanna.
Up to 2100 m in the Himalayas of n Pakistan and n India; Sri Lanka; Burma,
s China, Taiwan; se Asia and the Andaman Is.
Coracina javensis JAVAN CUCKOOSHRIKE. Open forest, savanna.
Lowlands of Java and Bali.
Coracina schistacea SLATY CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Peleng,
Banggai and Sula is. off e Sulawesi.
Coracina personata WALLACEAN CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest, savanna.
Lesser Sunda islands of Sumbawa to Romang, Sermata and Timor; Tanimbar
and Kai islands.
Coracina atriceps MOLUCCAN CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Up to 1000 m on Ternate, Halmahera, Bacan and Seram in the Moluccas.
Coracina fortis BURU CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Lowlands
and mts. on Buru I. in the s Moluccas.
Coracina caledonica MELANESIAN CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest, usually
montane. Solomon Is. of Bougainville, Kulambangra, New Georgia, Vangunu,
Santa Isabel and Guadalcanal; Vanuatu on Espiritu Santo, Malo, Malekula,
Erromango; Lifu I. in the Loyalty Is., and New Caledonia.
Coracina novaehollandiae BLACK-FACED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Open
forest, savanna, eucalypt woods. Lowlands in se New Guinea and Australia,
incl. Tasmania.
Coracina caeruleogrisea STOUT-BILLED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest,
second growth. Up to 2100 m in the Aru Is. and New Guinea, incl.
Yapen I.
Coracina temminckii CERULEAN CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Foothills and mts., 100-2200 m of Sulawesi, except sw,s.
Coracina striata BAR-BELLIED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Second growth,
forest, scrub. Up to 900 m in the Andaman Is., s Thailand, Malaya;
Sumatra and adj. smaller islands; Borneo; Philippines incl. Sulu Arch;
extirpated on Cebu.
Coracina bicolor PIED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Locally
up to 500 m of n Sulawesi including Manterawu, Bangka, Muna, Butung, Togian
and Sangihe islands.
Coracina lineata YELLOW-EYED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest, edge,
second growth. Waigeo I. in the w Papuan islands; w,n,se New Guinea
in the Vogelkop at 600-1450 m; n coastal ranges and Huon Peninsula, incl.
Numfor I.; New Britain and New Ireland; Solomon Is.; ne Australia from
e Queensland, n to Cape York Peninsula, s to ne New S. Wales, s to Manning
River.
Coracina boyeri BOYER'S CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Lowlands
on Salawati and Misool in the w Papuan is.; New Guinea, incl. Yapen I.
Coracina leucopygia WHITE-RUMPED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Woods, farms.
Up to 800 m of Sulawesi, incl. many adjacent islands.
Coracina papuensis WHITE-BELLIED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Savanna,
second growth, mangroves, riparian forest. Some of the allopatric
populations may be separate species.
C. p. papuensis. N Moluccas from Morotai and Halmahera to
Obi; Lesser Sunda is. of Kisar, Sermata, Luang; Tanimbar and Kai islands;
w Papuan is. of Waigeo, Salawati and Misool; New Guinea; Tagula I. in the
Louisiade Arch.; Manus and Los Negros in the Admiralty Is.; Rooke, New
Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover and Duke of York islands in the Bismarck
Arch.; Solomon Is.
C. p. hypoleuca. Coastal n Australia from ne W. Australia
e through n N. Territory to extreme nw Queensland.
C. p. robusta. Coastal e Australia from Queensland s through
e New S. Wales to Victoria and se S. Australia w to the Adelaide area.
Coracina longicauda HOODED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Tall, dense montane
forest. Mts., 1750-3650 m of c New Guinea in the Snow Mts., c highlands
and Huon Peninsula.
Coracina parvula HALMAHERA CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Mts. (probably) on Halmahera, n Moluccas.
Coracina abbotti PYGMY CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Mts.,
1500-2300 m of n,ne,c,sw Sulawesi.
Coracina analis NEW CALEDONIAN CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Mts. above 200 m of New Caledonia.
Coracina pectoralis WHITE-BREASTED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Woods,
savanna. Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast,
Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and s Mali to Nigeria, Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., s Sudan and s Ethiopia, and s (exc. in heavy forest)
to Zaire, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, s Angola, Zambia, Malawi, n
Namibia, Zimbabwe, n,e Botswana, ne S. Africa (Transvaal) and Mozambique.
Coracina caesia GREY CUCKOOSHRIKE. Humid forest. Locally
in mts above 1500 m from se Nigeria, sw Cameroon, Bioko I. (Fernando Po),
se Sudan, Ethiopia and s through ne,ce Zaire, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,
Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, e Zimbabwe and Mozambique to lowlands of ne,e
S. Africa in ne,e Transvaal, Natal and e,s Cape Province.
Coracina azurea BLUE CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Sierra
Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, s Cameroon,
sw C. African Rep., and n,ne Zaire, s to Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo
Rep., Cabinda, sw,c,ce Zaire, and sw Uganda.
Coracina graueri GRAUER'S CUCKOOSHRIKE. Humid forest.
Mts. above 1500 m in ne,ce Zaire and sw Uganda.
Coracina cinerea ASHY CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest, second growth,
mangroves. Up to 1800 m of Madagascar and the Grand Comoro and Mohéli
islands in the Comoro Islands.
Coracina typica MAURITIUS CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Mauritius
I. in the w Mascarene Is.
Coracina newtoni REUNION CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Réunion
I. in the w Mascarene Is.
Coracina coerulescens BLACKISH CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Luzon, Catanduanes, Marinduque islands in the n Philippines; formerly on
Cebu.
Coracina tenuirostris SLENDER-BILLED CICADABIRD. Forest
edge, savanna, mangroves. Lowlands to 1500 m in Palau; Pohnpei and
Yap in the Caroline Is.; sw Sulawesi, incl. Banggai, Sula, Sangihe and
Talaud islands; Tanahjampea, Kalaotoa, Tukangbesi islands in the Flores
Sea; Lomblen and Timor in the Lesser Sundas; Morotai, Halmahera, Bacan,
Obi, Bisa, Ambon, Seram and Seram Laut, Banda and Watubela islands in the
Moluccas; Kai and Aru islands; w Papuan is. of Waigeo, Salawati, Kofiau,
Misool; New Guinea, incl. Biak and Numfor islands; Lousiade and D'Entrecasteaux
arch.; Admiralty Is., Solomon Is.; n,e Australia in ne W. Australia (Kimberleys)
and n N. Territory e to Arnhem Land, and from e Queensland s through e
New S. Wales to e Victoria in the Melbourne area.
Coracina dohertyi SUMBA CICADABIRD. Forest. Up to
1400 m on Flores and Sumba islands in the wc Lesser Sumbas.
Coracina sula SULA CICADABIRD. Forest. Up to 1400
m on the Sula Is. off e Sulawesi.
Coracina dispar KAI CICADABIRD. Forest. Up to 1400
m in the Kai Islands.
Coracina mindanensis BLACK-BIBBED CICADABIRD. Forest, second
growth. Philippine islands of Luzon, Mindoro, Samar, Leyte, Bohol,
Mindanao, Basilan and the Sulu Archipelago.
Coracina morio SULAWESI CICADABIRD. Forest, second growth.
N,c,s,se Sulawesi, incl. Butung.
Coracina ceramensis PALE CICADABIRD. Forest, second growth.
Moluccas from Obi to Buru, Boano and Seram islands.
Coracina incerta BLACK-SHOULDERED CICADABIRD. Forest, second
growth. Foothills and mts., 100-1800 m on the w Papuan islands of
Waigeo and Batanta; New Guinea, incl. Meos Num and Yapen is.
Coracina schisticeps GREY-HEADED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Up to 1500 m on Misool and Salwati in the w Papuan is., New Guinea, exc.
se from Sepik R. to Milne Bay; D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago.
Coracina melas NEW GUINEA CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Up
to 1200 m in the Aru Is., and on Waigeo, Batanta and Salawati in the w
Papuan islands; New Guinea, incl. Yapen I.
Coracina montana BLACK-BELLIED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Mts., 750-2750 m of New Guinea.
Coracina holopolia SOLOMON ISLANDS CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Mts., 450-1000 m on the Solomon Islands of Buka, Bougainville, Choiseul,
Santa Isabel, Guadalcanal, Malaita, Kulambangra and Vangunu.
Coracina mcgregori MCGREGOR'S CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Mts. of n Mindanao in the s Philippines.
Coracina ostenta WHITE-WINGED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
Panay, Guimaras and Negros islands in the c Philippines.
Coracina polioptera INDOCHINESE CUCKOOSHRIKE. Open forest,
towns, second growth. Mts., 300-1500 m in Burma (exc. ne), nw,c,sw,ne
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and c,s Vietnam.
Coracina melaschistos BLACK-WINGED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Open forest,
woods, bamboo. Mts., 300-4575 m in n Pakistan, n India, sw,c,se China,
Hainan I., w,n,ne Burma, nw Thailand, n Laos, n,c Vietnam and Taiwan.
Coracina fimbriata LESSER CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest, farms,
second growth. Lowlands to 1000 m in the Malay Peninsula; Sumatra
incl. Simeulue and Siberut islands; Java, Bali and Borneo.
Coracina melanoptera BLACK-HEADED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Open forest,
scrub jungle. Up to 1000 m of extreme n India; lowlands to 2100 m
of c,s,e India, s to Kerala in s India; Sri Lanka.
Campochaera sloetii GOLDEN CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest, edge.
Locally in foothills up to 1050 m of w,n,s New Guinea in the Arfak Mts.,
n lowlands e to Idenburg River and s lowlands from Mimika River e to Port
Moresby area.
Lalage melanoleuca BLACK-AND-WHITE TRILLER. Forest.
Philippine islands of Luzon, Mindoro, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao.
Lalage nigra PIED TRILLER. Open woods, farms, mangroves.
Up to 1000 m in the Nicobar Is., s peninsular Thailand, Malaya; Sumatra
incl. Nias, Bangka and Belitung; Borneo incl. adj. islands; w Java incl.
Karimunjawa Islands; and the Philippines.
Lalage leucopygialis WHITE-RUMPED TRILLER. Open woods,
farms, mangroves. Sulawesi, incl. Manadotua, Peleng, Muna, Butung,
Banggai and the Sula Islands.
Lalage sueurii WHITE-SHOULDERED TRILLER. Savanna, open
forest. Up to 1100 m in e Java; Lesser Sunda Is. from Bali e to Romang,
Sermata and Babar; islands in the Flores and Banda seas of Tanahjampea,
Salayar, Bonerate, Kalaotua, Madu, Butung, Tukangbesi; c,s Sulawesi.
Lalage tricolor WHITE-WINGED TRILLER. Savanna, open forest.
Drier parts of Australia and se New Guinea in the Port Moresby area.
Lalage aurea RUFOUS-BELLIED TRILLER. Forest, edge, open
scrub. Morotai, Ternate, Halmahera, Bacan and Obi islands in the
n Moluccas.
Lalage moesta WHITE-BROWED TRILLER. Forest. Tanimbar
Islands.
Lalage atrovirens BLACK-BROWED TRILLER. Low trees, forest
edge. Up to 1200 m on Waigeo, Salawati and Misool islands in the
w Papuan islands; n New Guinea e to Astrolabe Bay and Ramu River, incl.
Biak I.
Lalage leucomela VARIED TRILLER. Savanna, woods, humid forest,
second growth, mangroves. Up to 1500 m in the Kai and Aru islands;
e,s New Guinea w to Mimika R. and Huon Gulf; D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade
archipelagos; Trobriand Is.; Rooke I. e to New Hanover and New Ireland,
Duke of York; Mussau I. in the St. Matthias Group; Tabar and Lihir islands;
coastal n,e Australia from ne W. Australia (Kimberleys) e through n N.
Territory to n,e Queensland, s to ne New S. Wales to Newcastle area.
Lalage maculosa POLYNESIAN TRILLER. Forest. Lowlands
to mts. in c,n Vanuatu from Espíritu Santo to Éfaté;
Santa Cruz Is.; Fiji, incl. Rotuma; Tonga; Niue; Wallis and Futuna, and
w Samoa on Savaii and Upolu islands.
Lalage sharpei SAMOAN TRILLER. Dense forest. Mts.
above 200 m on Savaii and Upolu in w Samoa.
Lalage leucopyga LONG-TAILED TRILLER. Forest. Se
Solomon Is. on San Cristobal and Ugi; Torres and Banks islands; Vanuatu;
Loyalty Is.; New Caledonia; formerly on Norfolk I.
Campephaga petiti PETIT'S CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Se
Nigeria, s Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, C. African Rep., ne Zaire, w Uganda
and w Kenya s to nw Angola and se,ce Zaire. May hybridize with C.
flava in Rwanda, but Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1993, p. 351) recognize
them as separate species.
Campephaga flava BLACK CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest, woods, scrub,
undergrowth. From Angola, sw,sc,ce Zaire, extreme se Sudan, s Ethiopia
and s Somalia s to Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique,
Zimbabwe, n Namibia, c,e Botswana and ne,s S. Africa in Transvaal, Natal
and s,e Cape Province.
Campephaga phoenicea RED-SHOULDERED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Woods,
scrub, savanna, forest. From Senegambia, s Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea,
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria,
Cameroon, C. African Rep., Chad, s Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and s to Congo,
n Angola, sw,n,ne Zaire, Uganda and nw Kenya. Sometimes lumped with
flava and petiti, but although there is some interbreeding with flava in
Kenya and Uganda they are also ecologically separate in overlap areas.
Campephaga quiscalina PURPLE-THROATED CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest,
woods. Up to 2400 m from Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast,
Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Mali, s Cameroon, sw C. African Rep., sw,sc, ce,
ne Zaire, extreme se Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda and w,sc Kenya, Tanzania, s
in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo to c Angola and Zambia.
Campephaga lobata GHANA CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest. Sierra
Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and s Ghana. This, and the following
species, are placed in Lobotos by Keith, et al. (1992. Birds of Africa,
vol. 4) and by Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1993), based on "distinctive
coloring and prominent face wattles."
Campephaga oriolina ORIOLE CUCKOOSHRIKE. Forest.
S Cameroon, s C. African Rep., Gabon, Congo Rep., ne,ce Zaire. See
note above under C. lobata.
Pericrocotus roseus ROSY MINIVET. Forest, woods, towns.
Himalayas, 300-1800 m from e Afghanistan, n Pakistan and n India, cs China,
Burma and nw Vietnam.
Pericrocotus cantonensis BROWN-RUMPED MINIVET. Open woods,
pine forest. Ce China from s Shensi, Shansi and Kiangsu s to Szechwan,
Kweichow, e Kwangsi and s Kwangtung. Often included in roseus because
of hybrids in s Kwangtung, but there is no evidence of interbreeding in
other areas of close approach or overlap.
Pericrocotus divaricatus ASHY MINIVET. Woods, forest, second
growth. Se Siberia, ne China, n Korea, n,c Japan on Hondo; probably
on Taiwan.
Pericrocotus tegimae RYUKYU MINIVET. Woods, forest, second
growth. S Japan in s Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Sometimes
lumped with divaricatus.
Pericrocotus cinnamomeus SMALL MINIVET. Woods, mangroves,
forest, scrub, orchards. Up to 1500 m from n,e,se Pakistan e across
n,c,e India and s to s India and Sri Lanka; Burma (exc. ne), Thailand and
Cambodia to Laos and s Vietnam; Andaman Is.; Java; Bali.
Pericrocotus igneus FIERY MINIVET. Woods, forest. Casuarina
scrub. Up to 500 m in the Malay Peninsula; Sumatra incl. Simeulue,
Nias, Bangka and Belitung; Borneo; Palawan I. in the sw Philippines.
Pericrocotus lansbergei FLORES MINIVET. Woods, forest.
Up to 1400 m on Sumbawa and Flores islands in the wc Lesser Sunda Islands.
Possibly conspecific with cinnamomeus.
Pericrocotus erythropygius WHITE-BELLIED MINIVET. Open
dry scrub, grassland, savanna. Peninsular India in the arid regions
from e Punjab, e Rajasthan and Gujarat e to sw Bihar and s to Mysore; plains
of c Burma.
Pericrocotus solaris GREY-CHINNED MINIVET. Open forest.
Mts., 600-3050 m from n,e India e through Burma (exc. c) to se China and
Hainan I.; Taiwan; s locally through se Asia to Sumatra and n Borneo.
Pericrocotus ethologus LONG-TAILED MINIVET. Open forest.
Mts., 900-3650 m in e Afghanistan, n Pakistan and n,e India, se Tibet,
c,sw China, w,ne,e Burma, nw Thailand and s Vietnam.
Pericrocotus brevirostris SHORT-BILLED MINIVET. Open forest,
edge, second growth. Mts., 900-2450 m in ne,e India, se Tibet, s
China, Burma, nw Thailand, n Laos and nw Vietnam.
Pericrocotus miniatus SUNDA MINIVET. Forest. Mts.,
1200-2700 m in Sumatra and Java.
Pericrocotus flammeus SCARLET MINIVET. Forest. Hills
to 2100 m of peninsular sw India; mts. 900-2750 m from nw,e India e to
s China and s through se Asia (exc. c Thailand) and Andaman Is., to Sumatra
incl. adj. islands; Java, Bali, Lombok, Borneo; Philippines on Luzon, Samar,
Leyte, Negros, Mindanao and Jolo.
Hemipus. Affinities uncertain, may be related to Philentoma
or Tephrodornis.
Hemipus picatus BAR-WINGED FLYCATCHER-SHRIKE. Forest, edge,
scrub. Mts. to 2000 m from n,e, peninsular India; Sri Lanka; e to
sw China and s through se Asia to Sumatra and ne Borneo.
Hemipus hirundinaceus BLACK-WINGED FLYCATCHER-SHRIKE. Forest,
open country. Up to 1100 m in Sumatra, incl. Nias, Simeulue, Bangka,
Belitung and Riau and Lingga arch.; Java, Bali and Borneo.
Subfamily DICRURINAE
Tribe RHIPIDURINI
The genus Culicicapa (see Petroicidae) may belong in the Rhipidurini.
Rhipidura hypoxantha YELLOW-BELLIED FANTAIL. Forest, rhododendron
thickets, woods, second growth. Himalayas, 1000-4600 m in n,e India,
se Tibet, sw China, Burma, nw Thailand, n Laos and nw Vietnam.
Rhipidura superciliaris BLUE FANTAIL. Humid forest.
Up to 1200 m on the Philippine Is. of Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Mindanao and
Basilan.
Rhipidura cyaniceps BLUE-HEADED FANTAIL. Humid forest.
Up to 2400 m on the Philippine Is. of Luzon, Catanduanes, Tablas, Masbate,
Panay, Negros, Guimaras and Ticao.
Rhipidura phoenicura RUFOUS-TAILED FANTAIL. Forest.
Mts. above 900 m on Java.
Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea BLACK-AND-CINNAMON FANTAIL. Humid
forest. Mts., 1000-3050 m on Mindanao in the s Philippines.
Rhipidura albicollis WHITE-THROATED FANTAIL. Montane forest.
Himalayan foothills to 2000 m in n,ne India, Nepal, Burma (exc. c,ne) and
sw China incl. Hainan; s through highlands, 1200-2750 m of Indochina, Sumatra
and n Borneo.
R. albicollis and R. albogularis are in contact in ne peninsular
India where one hybrid specimen is known. They have been treated
as conspecific, but they occupy different habitats and altitudes.
Rhipidura albogularis SPOT-BREASTED FANTAIL. Lowland gardens,
dry forest, thorn forest. C,s India from Rajastan, Madhya Pradesh
and Orissa south.
Rhipidura euryura WHITE-BELLIED FANTAIL. Forest.
Mts., 900-2750 m of Java. Sometimes considered to be conspecific
with perlata, but they may not be closely related.
Rhipidura aureola WHITE-BROWED FANTAIL. Forest, scrub,
second growth, farms. Up to 1075 m in e Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka,
Burma, sw China, w,c Thailand, Cambodia, c Laos and s Vietnam.
Rhipidura javanica PIED FANTAIL. Mangroves, bamboo, open
woods, farms, scrub. Up to 750 m in s Burma, c,s Thailand, Malaya,
Cambodia, s Vietnam; Sumatra incl. Riau and Lingga arch., Bangka and Belitung;
Java; Bali; Borneo; and the Philippines.
Rhipidura perlata SPOTTED FANTAIL. Forest. Up to 1700
m in sw Thailand, Malaya; Sumatra and Borneo.
Rhipidura leucophrys WILLIE-WAGTAIL. Open areas with perches,
often near water, forest edge, farms. Lowlands and, locally, mts.
to 2000 m in the Moluccas (incl. Seram Laut and Watubela is.), New Guinea,
Bismarck Arch., Solomon Is., Australia and n Tasmania, incl. King and Flinders
islands.
Rhipidura diluta BROWN-CAPPED FANTAIL. Open forest, edge,
shrubs, mangroves. Up to 1400 m on Sumbawa, Flores and Lomblen islands
in the wc Lesser Sunda Islands.
Rhipidura rufiventris NORTHERN FANTAIL. Open forest, edge,
shrubs, mangroves. Up to 1600 m on Roti, Timor, Wetar, Romang, Leti,
Moa, Sermata and Damar is. in the Lesser Sundas; Obi, Buru, Seram, Seram
Laut and Watubela is. in the Moluccas; Kai and w Papuan islands; New Guinea,
incl. Biak, Yapen, Meos Num and Manam is.; D'Entrecasteaux Arch. on Fergusson
and Goodenough is.; Louisiade Arch. on Tagula and Misima is.; Bismarck
Arch. on New Britain, Duke of York, New Ireland, New Hanover, Dyaul, St.
Matthias (= Mussau), Manus, Lihir, Tabar and Tanga is.; n Australia from
ne W. Australia w to Derby, e through n N. Territory to n Queensland, se
to Townsville.
Rhipidura fuscorufa CINNAMON-TAILED FANTAIL. Forest, woods.
Tanimbar Is. Sometimes included in rufiventris.
Rhipidura cockerelli WHITE-WINGED FANTAIL. Forest.
Up to 1200 m on all Solomon Islands except Rennell I.
Rhipidura threnothorax SOOTY THICKET-FANTAIL. Forest undergrowth,
sedge, cane grass, swamps. Up to 1000 m in the Aru Is.; w Papuan
islands of Waigeo, Salawati and Misool; New Guinea, incl. Yapen Island.
Rhipidura maculipectus BLACK THICKET-FANTAIL. Cane grass,
sedge, swamp forest. Lowlands near sea level in the Aru Is.; w Papuan
Is. of Batanta and Salawati; nw,s New Guinea in the Vogelkop and s lowlands
e to Port Moresby. A report from Haruku in the s Moluccas is questionable.
Rhipidura leucothorax WHITE-BELLIED THICKET-FANTAIL. Tall
dens grass, brush, thickets, second growth. Up to 1150 m in New Guinea
in the highlands of the Karimui basin; 650-1350 m in ec New Guinea.
Rhipidura atra BLACK FANTAIL. Forest undergrowth, thickets,
edge. Mts., 850-3200 m on Waigeo in the w Papuan islands; New Guinea
from the Arfak and Weyland mts. to the c ranges, Cyclops Mts., Huon Peninsula
and the se ranges.
Rhipidura hyperythra CHESTNUT-BELLIED FANTAIL. Forest,
edge. Foothills, locally lowlands to 1750 m in the Aru Is. and New
Guinea, incl. Yapen I.
Rhipidura albolimbata FRIENDLY FANTAIL. Forest, tree ferns,
moss forest. New Guinea in mts., 1400-3575 m (usually above hyperythra)
from the Vogelkop to se ranges and Cyclops and Saruwaged mts.
Rhipidura phasiana MANGROVE FANTAIL. Mangroves. Coastal
lowlands in cs,se New Guinea between Oriomo R. and Fly R., from Port Moresby
east; n Australia from nw W. Australia w to Shark Bay, e to nw Queensland
in the Normanton area. Often regarded as conspecific with fuliginosa.
Rhipidura fuliginosa GREY FANTAIL. Forest, woods, towns,
mangroves, second growth. Australia and Tasmania, incl. islands in
Bass Strait, but absent from coastal mangroves occupied by phasiana, and
absent from most arid interior regions. New Zealand, incl. most adj.
islands; New Caledonia; Lifou I. in the Loyalty Is.; Vanuatu incl. Banks
Islands; s Solomon Is., in mts. on San Cristobal. Formerly Lord Howe
I., extirpated.
Rhipidura drownei BROWN FANTAIL. Forest. Mts. on
Bougainville and Guadalcanal islands in the Solomon Islands.
Rhipidura tenebrosa DUSKY FANTAIL. Forest. Mts., sometimes
lowlands, on San Cristobal I. in the s Solomon Islands.
Rhipidura rennelliana RENNELL FANTAIL. Forest. Rennell
I. in the e Solomon Islands.
Rhipidura spilodera STREAKED FANTAIL. Forest, second growth,
farms, towns. Lowlands of New Caledonia; Loyalty Is.; c,n Vanuatu
from Éfaté north; Banks Is.; Fijian Is. of Viti Levu, Ovalau,
Yanganga, Vanua Levu, Kioa and Taveuni.
Rhipidura personata KADAVU FANTAIL. Dense riparian thickets,
brush. Kadavu I. in sw Fiji.
Rhipidura nebulosa SAMOAN FANTAIL. Forest undergrowth,
edge, brush. Mts. above 900 m on Upolu and Savaii islands of w Samoa.
Rhipidura brachyrhyncha DIMORPHIC FANTAIL. Forest, especially
mossy forest. Mts., 1350-3350 m of New Guinea from the Arfak, Snow
and Weyland mts. e to Huon Peninsula and se ranges.
Rhipidura teysmanni RUSTY-BELLIED FANTAIL. Forest.
Mts., 600-2300 m of Sulawesi and Taliabu I. in the Sula Islands.
Rhipidura superflua TAWNY-BACKED FANTAIL. Forest.
Buru I. in the s Moluccas.
Rhipidura dedemi STREAKY-BREASTED FANTAIL. Forest.
Mts., 500-1500 m on Seram, s Moluccas.
Rhipidura opistherythra LONG-TAILED FANTAIL. Presumably
forest. Lowlands of Tanimbar Is.
Rhipidura lepida PALAU FANTAIL. Forest, second growth.
Babelthuap s to Peleliu in the Palau Is.
Rhipidura rufidorsa RUFOUS-BACKED FANTAIL. Forest.
Up to 1000 m on Misool I. in the w Papuan islands; New Guinea, incl. Yapen
Island. Closely related to rufifrons.
Rhipidura dahli BISMARCK FANTAIL. Forest. Mts., 600-1500
m on New Ireland and New Britain in the Bismarck Arch.
Rhipidura matthiae MATTHIAS FANTAIL. Forest, edge.
Mussau I. (or St. Matthias I.) in the St. Matthias Group, n of New Hanover
I. in the n Bismarck Arch.
Rhipidura malaitae MALAITA FANTAIL. Forest. Mts.,
600-1200 m on Malaita I., se Solomon Is.
Rhipidura kubaryi POHNPEI FANTAIL. Forest, edge. Pohnpei
I. in the e Caroline Is.
Rhipidura rufifrons RUFOUS FANTAIL. Forest undergrowth,
edge, second growth, mangroves. Lowlands and mts. to 2000 m on Saipan,
Tinian, Agiguan, Rota and Guam in the Mariana Is.; Yap I. in the Caroline
Is.; Halmahera, Ternate, Bacan, Obi, Banda, Seram Laut and Watubela is.
in the Moluccas; Tanahjampea, Kalao, Kalaotoa is. in the Flores Sea; the
Lesser Sunda islands from Sumba and Flores e to Damar and Babar; Tanimbar,
Kai, Aru and w Papuan islands of Waigeo, Salawati, Misool and Schildpad;
sw New Guinea in the Mimika River area; Fergusson I. in the D'Entrecasteaux
Arch.; Bonvouloir, Misima and Rossel in the Louisiade Arch.; Solomon Is.
from Buka to San Cristobal; Santa Cruz Is.; n,e,se Australia from ne W.
Australia w to Broome, e through n N. Territory to n,e Queensland, s to
e New S. Wales and e,s Victoria. Closely related to kubaryi and semirubra.
R. rufifrons could be subdivided into more than one species under some
species concepts.
Rhipidura semirubra MANUS FANTAIL. Forest, edge. Admiralty
Is. in the n Bismarck Arch.
Tribe DICRURINI
Chaetorhynchus papuensis PYGMY DRONGO. Forest. Mts.,
600-1600 m, New Guinea incl. Yule I.
Dicrurus ludwigii SQUARE-TAILED DRONGO. Humid forest edge,
second growth, riparian woods. Senegambia, s Mali, Burkina Faso,
Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo,
Benin, Nigeria, s Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, C. African Rep., n,ne Zaire,
extreme se Sudan, coastal Somalia, Uganda and w,c,se Kenya, s to s Zaire,
se Angola, Zambia, s,e Tanzania, s through Malawi, e Zimbabwe and Mozambique
to e S. Africa in e Transvaal, Natal, e Cape Province.
Dicrurus atripennis SHINING DRONGO. Humid forest.
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, s Cameroon,
Gabon, Congo, sw C. African Rep., n,ne,c,ce Zaire.
Dicrurus adsimilis FORK-TAILED DRONGO. All habitats except
extremely arid regions and humid forest. From Senegambia e through
s Mali, s Niger, Cameroon, C. African Rep. and s Sudan to Ethiopia and
Somalia, s (exc. in w,c heavy forest) to s S. Africa. Some authors
include modestus, aldabranus, fuscipennis, forficatus, waldenii and macrocercus
as subspecies of D. adsimilis. Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1993)
include modestus in adsimilis. They find the treatment of modestus
as a separate species "... hypothetical, and in need of careful investigation".
The combined distributions of adsimilis and modestus include all subSaharan
African countries and the Gulf of Guinea islands of Fernando Po (Bioko)
and Principé. Probable hybrids have been reported and some
authors suggest that they behave as "ecological species" in some areas.
Dicrurus modestus VELVET-MANTLED DRONGO. Humid forest.
From Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia e to s Cameroon, Fernando Po I.,
s C. African Rep., n,ne Zaire, se Sudan, Uganda and w Kenya s to nw Angola
and sw,cs,ce Zaire; Principé Island. May be a race of adsimilis.
Dicrurus aldabranus ALDABRA DRONGO. Forest, woods, second
growth. Aldabra Islands.
Dicrurus fuscipennis COMORO DRONGO. Forest, woods, second
growth. Grand Comoro I. in the Comoro Islands.
Dicrurus forficatus CRESTED DRONGO. Woods, brush.
Up to 1800 m in Madagascar, Nossi Bé I., and Anjouan Island in the
Comoro Islands.
Dicrurus waldenii MAYOTTE DRONGO. Woods. Mayotte Island
in the Comoro Islands.
Dicrurus macrocercus BLACK DRONGO. Woods, open country,
towns, marshes. Up to 2100 m from se Iran e through se Afghanistan,
Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Burma to c,e China, s through se Asia (exc.
peninsular Thailand and Malaya) to Sumatra, Java, Bali and Taiwan.
Intro. on Rota and Guam in the Mariana Islands.
Dicrurus leucophaeus ASHY DRONGO. Forest, edge, woods,
scrub, towns. Lowlands and mts. to 3100 m. The two subspecies
sometimes are treated as species, but intergradation occurs in Sikkim.
D. l. longicaudatus. From e Afghanistan e through Himalayan
foothills of Pakistan and n India from Kashmir to Nepal and Sikkim.
D. l. leucophaeus. From ne,e India, Tibet, Burma and c,se
China, Hainan, s through se Asia (exc. s Malaya, but incl. Pinang I.) to
Sumatra, Simeulue and Mentawai Is., Java, Bali, Lombok, n Borneo and the
sw Philippine Is. of Palawan, Calamian Is., and Balabac. Includes
leucogenis.
Dicrurus caerulescens WHITE-BELLIED DRONGO. Deciduous and
bamboo forest. Up to 2000 m of India, n to Himalayan foothills (except
in Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh) e to Nepal, Bihar and w Bengal; Sri Lanka.
Dicrurus annectans CROW-BILLED DRONGO. Forest. Himalayan
foothills and adj. plains in n,e India and s Burma.
Dicrurus aeneus BRONZED DRONGO. Forest, bamboo, edge.
Foothills to 2000 m from s,ne India, Burma, s China, Hainan I.; Taiwan;
s through se Asia to Sumatra and Borneo.
Dicrurus remifer LESSER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO. Forest, edge,
second growth. Lowlands and foothills to 2400 m from the Himalayas
of n India, Burma and s China, s through se Asia (exc. c Thailand, n Vietnam);
Sumatra and Java.
Dicrurus hottentottus HAIR-CRESTED DRONGO. Humid forest, edge,
mangroves. A variable series of populations from nw Himalayas and
hills in s,n,e India se through coastal hills to s India (Kerala) and e
to Burma and c,s China, s through se Asia (exc. Malaya) to Sumatra (incl.
Mentawai Is.), Java, Bali, n Borneo (incl. Maratua and Matasiri is.), Sulawesi,
incl. most adj. islands and islands in the Java Sea; and Obi I. in the
c Moluccas.
Dicrurus balicassius BALICASSIAO or PHILIPPINE DRONGO.
Forest, edge. N,c Philippines on Luzon, Polillo Is., Verde, Lubang,
Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, Panay, Guimaras, Negros, Bantayan, Cebu,
Ticao.
Dicrurus montanus SULAWESI DRONGO. Forest. Mts.,
600-1800 m of Sulawesi; mostly above lowland D. hottentottus.
Dicrurus sumatranus SUMATRAN DRONGO. Humid forest, edge,
mangroves. Lowlands of Sumatra.
Dicrurus densus WALLACEAN DRONGO. Humid forest, edge, mangroves.
Up to 1500 m on the Lesser Sunda islands of Sumbawa and Sumba e to
Gunungapi, Wetar and Timor; Seram Laut, Watubela, Tanimbar and Kai islands.
Dicrurus megarhynchus RIBBON-TAILED DRONGO. Forest.
New Ireland I. in the e Bismarck Arch.
Dicrurus bracteatus SPANGLED DRONGO. Humid forest, edge,
mangroves. Lowlands and mts. to 2000 m on the ec,s Philippine islands
of Semirara, Calamian Is., Cuyo Is., Palawan, Balabac, Cagayan Sula, Tablas,
Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Panaon, Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu Arch.; Moluccan Is.
of Morotai, Halmahera, Bacan, Buru, Ambon, Haruku, Seram, Saparua; New
Guinea and most adj. islands; D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade archipelagos;
New Britain and Rooke I. in the Bismarck Arch.; Guadalcanal and San Cristobal
islands in the Solomon Is.; n,e Australia from n W. Australia w to the
Kimberleys, e to Queensland and s through e New South Wales to e Victoria.
Dicrurus andamanensis ANDAMAN DRONGO. Forest. Andaman
Islands.
Dicrurus paradiseus GREATER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO. Open
forest, edge, second growth, farms. Up to 1500 m from India n to
the Himalayan foothills; Sri Lanka; Burma and s China, Hainan I., s through
se Asia to the Andaman and Nicobar islands; Sumatra, Simeulue, Banyak Is.,
Nias, Riau and Lingga archipelagos, Bangka and Belitung; Java, Bali and
Borneo, incl. Anambas, N. Natuna, Balembangan and Banggi islands.
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