Orange-breasted Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus) [XC890664]
by id from Kafue National Park, Zambia (song)
Orange-breasted Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus) [XC813174]
by David C. Moyer from Great Kei Local Municipality (near Kei Mouth), Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Malaconotus or in Chlorophoneus. Probably closely allied with Many-colored Bush-shrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor), but also closely resembles the much larger, heavy-billed, savanna-dwelling Malaconotus blanchoti. Birds in eastern coastal lowlands described as additional subspecies suahelicus (southern Somalia south to central Mozambique) and terminus (south-eastern Tanzania south to south-eastern South Africa), but differ only in slightly smaller size from similis and both are synonymized with latter. A specimen from Entebbe (Uganda), named as Telophorus andaryae (Chlorophoneus andaryae), was probably a hybrid between present species and Grey-green Bush-shrike (Chlorophoneus bocagei).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
sulfureopectus (Lesson, 1830) - Southern Senegal and northern Sierra Leone east to Central African Republic, western Sudan, northern DRCongo and western Uganda.
similis (A. Smith, 1836) - Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, southern Somalia, south-western and eastern DRCongo, eastern Uganda and Kenya south to Angola, northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and eastern South Africa.