Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae)
North Melanesian Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina welchmani) - HBW 10, p. 71
French: Échenilleur de Welchman
German: Solomonen-Raupenfänger
Spanish: Oruguero de Welchman
Taxonomy: Graucalus (Artamides) welchmani Tristram, 1892, Bugotu (= Santa Isabel), Solomon Islands.
Forms a superspecies with C. macei, C. javensis, C. schistacea, C. personata, C. atriceps, C. fortis, C. caledonica and C. novaehollandiae, possibly also including C. caerulogrisea; all were formerly treated as conspecific. In recent decades, present species has normally been treated as conspecific with C. caledonica, but the two show notable differences in plumage, sexual dichromatism, iris colour, voice, and habitat preferences; all these factors, combined with significant geographical gap of c. 1000 km of ocean between th.. View all taxonomy...
Forms a superspecies with C. macei, C. javensis, C. schistacea, C. personata, C. atriceps, C. fortis, C. caledonica and C. novaehollandiae, possibly also including C. caerulogrisea; all were formerly treated as conspecific. In recent decades, present species has normally been treated as conspecific with C. caledonica, but the two show notable differences in plumage, sexual dichromatism, iris colour, voice, and habitat preferences; all these factors, combined with significant geographical gap of c. 1000 km of ocean between the two groups, suggest it is more appropriate to revert to their earlier treatment as two separate species. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- bougainvillei (Mathews, 1928) - Bougainville I.
- kulambangrae Rothschild & Hartert, 1916 - New Georgia Group (Kolombangara, New Georgia and Vangunu), in Solomon Is.
- welchmani (Tristram, 1892) - Santa Isabel.
- amadonis Cain & Galbraith, 1955 - Guadalcanal.
- Least Concern
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