Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae)

White-bellied Minivet (Pericrocotus erythropygius) - HBW 10, p. 115

French: Minivet à ventre blanc German: Weißbauch-Mennigvogel Spanish: Minivet Ventriblanco
Other common names: Jerdon’s Minivet

Taxonomy: M[uscicapa] erythropygia Jerdon, 1840, Ajanta Hills, Aurangabad District, Hyderabad, India.
Has been proposed that distinctive race albifrons be elevated to species rank. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • erythropygius (Jerdon, 1840) - W & C India (mainly Gujarat and from C Rajasthan and W Haryana E to Bihar and S to C Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh).
  • albifrons Jerdon, 1862 - plains of C Myanmar.

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