Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae)

Reunion Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina newtoni) - HBW 10, p. 85

French: Échenilleur cuisenier German: Newtonraupenfänger Spanish: Oruguero de Reunión

Taxonomy: Oxynotus newtoni Pollen, 1866, Reunion Island.
Forms a superspecies with C. typica. No other obviously close relatives; plumage similarities (including marked sexual dichromatism) with Australasian C. tenuirostris, C. schisticeps and C. melas may indicate either common ancestry or convergence. Monotypic.

Distribution: NW Reunion I.