Four-colored Bush-Shrike (Telophorus quadricolor)

Other Names (World)
Four-colored Bush-shrike, Four-coloured Bush-shrike

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1851)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 600 m.

Range (Guide)

Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zimbabwe.

North-eastern South Africa (northern and eastern Limpopo south to north-eastern Eastern Cape) and Swaziland.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

Four-colored Bushshrike (Telophorus quadricolor) [XC148574]
by id from Mbombela (near Nelspruit), Ehlanzeni, Mpumalanga, South Africa (call, song)

Four-colored Bushshrike (Telophorus quadricolor) [XC28647]
by Derek Solomon from Orbi Gorge, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Gorgeous Bush-Shrike (Telophorus viridis) and Four-colored Bush-Shrike (Telophorus quadricolor) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include quadricolor as a subspecies of viridis in the genus Malaconotus.

References
See References.

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