Fairy-wrens (Maluridae)
Broad-billed Fairy-wren (Malurus grayi) - HBW 12, p. 519
French: Mérion à bec large
German: Breitschnabel-Staffelschwanz
Spanish: Maluro Picoancho
Other common names: Broad-billed Wren-warbler; Campbell’s Fairy-wren (campbelli)
Taxonomy: Todopsis grayi Wallace, 1862, Sorong, north-west New Guinea.
Was in the past placed in a monotypic genus Chenorhamphus on account of very broad bill, and has sometimes been placed with M. cyanocephalus and Sipodotus wallacii in a separate genus, Todopsis. Inclusion in present genus supported by plumage details and protein evidence. Isolated race campbelli sometimes treated as a separate species, but differs minimally from nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- grayi (Wallace, 1862) - NW New Guinea from Vogelkop E to Torricelli Mts, N of main cordillera.
- campbelli Schodde & Weatherly, 1982 - Mt Bosavi (S of cordillera), in E New Guinea.
- Least Concern
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