Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae)

Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike (Hemipus picatus) - HBW 10, p. 121

French: Échenilleur gobemouche German: Elsterraupenschmätzer Spanish: Oruguero Alibarrado
Other common names: Pied Flycatcher-shrike, Pygmy Triller/Cuckoo-shrike

Taxonomy: Muscicapa picata Sykes, 1832, The Deccan, India.
Four subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • capitalis (Horsfield, 1840) - Himalayas (E from N India), S China (SE Xizang, W & S Yunnan, S & C Guizhou, W Guangxi), N, C & E Myanmar, NW Thailand, N Laos and N Vietnam (W Tonkin).
  • picatus (Sykes, 1832) - W, C & E India, Bangladesh, W & S Myanmar, W & E Thailand and C & S Indochina.
  • leggei Whistler, 1939 - Sri Lanka.
  • intermedius Salvadori, 1879 - S Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and NE Borneo.