Fantails (Rhipiduridae)
Chestnut-bellied Fantail (Rhipidura hyperythra) - HBW 11, p. 223
French: Rhipidure à ventre roux
German: Braunbauch-Fächerschwanz
Spanish: Abanico Ventrirrufo
Taxonomy: Rhipidura hyperythra G. R. Gray, 1858, Aru Islands.
Forms a superspecies with R. albolimbata, R. albiscapa, R. fuliginosa and R. phasiana. Race muelleri intergrades with castaneothorax in E. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- muelleri A. B. Meyer, 1874 - W New Guinea E to Astrolabe Bay, S to upper R Fly area and Okasa (Eastern Highlands).
- hyperythra G. R. Gray, 1858 - Aru Is.
- castaneothorax E. P. Ramsay, 1879 - SE New Guinea (E from Huon Peninsula and, in S, from R Angabunga).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A pair mating on a small branch then flying away Locality Varirata National Park, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea (ssp castaneothorax)
Keith Blomerley 30 August 2008 4 years ago 35 sec 3.3
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Accelerating whistle followed with a lower piched note Locality Varirata National Park, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea
(ssp castaneothorax)
Niels Poul Dreyer 9 July 1990 3 years ago 4.5
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