Whistlers (Pachycephalidae)

Little Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla megarhyncha) - HBW 12, p. 431

French: Pitohui châtain German: Waldpitohui Spanish: Picanzo Chico
Other common names: Rufous-breasted/Rusty-breasted/Fawn-breasted Shrike-thrush, Little/Red/Rufous Thrush, Brown Shrike-flycatcher; Rufous Shrike-thrush (megarhyncha)

Taxonomy: Muscicapa megarhyncha Quoy and Gaimard, 1830, Dorey, Vogelkop, New Guinea.
Formerly placed in a monotypic genus, Myiolestes. Pale race parvula has been treated as a separate species, but hybridizes with neighbouring aelptes. Described race wuroi (from S New Guinea) synonymized with goodsoni; conigravi (from Admiralty Gulf, in N Western Australia) merged with parvula. Twenty-eight subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

affinis ( G. R. Gray, 1862) - N West Papuan Is (Waigeo).
batantae ( Meise, 1929) - Batanta I.
misoliensis ( Meise, 1929) - Misool I.

See all 28 subspecies

affinis ( G. R. Gray, 1862) - N West Papuan Is (Waigeo).
batantae ( Meise, 1929) - Batanta I.
misoliensis ( Meise, 1929) - Misool I.
megarhyncha ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) - Salawati I and W New Guinea from Vogelkop to Wandammen district, foot of Nassau Mts and Oranje Range.
melanorhyncha ( A. B. Meyer, 1874) - Biak I, in Geelvink Bay (NW New Guinea).
obscura ( A. B. Meyer, 1874) - Yapen I (in Geelvink Bay).
ferruginea ( E. J. O. Hartert & Paludan, 1936) - foot of Weyland Mts at head of Geelvink Bay.
hybridus ( Meise, 1929) - N New Guinea from R Mamberamo E to Humboldt Bay.
idenburgi ( Rand, 1940) - slopes S of R Idenburg (WC New Guinea).
maeandrina ( Stresemann, 1921) - EC New Guinea (upper R Sepik, Victor Emanuel Mts).
tappenbecki Reichenow, 1899 - NE New Guinea from lower and middle R Sepik and Central Highlands E to Astrolabe Bay.
madaraszi ( Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1903) - Huon Peninsula (NE New Guinea).
aruensis ( G. R. Gray, 1858) - Aru Is.
goodsoni ( E. J. O. Hartert, 1930) - S New Guinea (Merauke District).
palmeri ( Rand, 1938) - R Fly basin (S between R Oriomo and R Morehead), in S New Guinea.
neos ( Mayr, 1931) - E New Guinea (Herzog Mts, upper R Watut and S coast of Huon Gulf).
superflua ( Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1912) - N coast of SE New Guinea (R Aicora E to Collingwood Bay).
despecta ( Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1903) - S coast of SE New Guinea (Hall Sound/R Angabunga E to Milne Bay).
trobriandi ( E. J. O. Hartert, 1896) - Trobriand Is, off SE New Guinea.
fortis ( Gadow, 1883) - D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago (Goodenough I, Fergusson I, Normanby I).
discolor De Vis, 1890 - Louisiade Archipelago (Tagula I).
parvula Gould, 1845 - NE Western Australia and N Northern Territory (E to E Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt).
aelptes Schodde & Mason, 1976 - NE Northern Territory (around mouth of R McArthur).
normani ( Mathews, 1914) - N Australia on coastal Gulf of Carpentaria and N Queensland (Cape York Peninsula), and islands in Torres Strait.
griseata ( G. R. Gray, 1858) - NE Queensland.
synaptica Schodde & Mason, 1999 - E Queensland coast (S Halifax Bay S to Sarina).
gouldii ( G. R. Gray, 1858) - E Queensland coast (Broad Bay S to Hervey Bay).
rufogaster Gould, 1845 - SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.