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 LC    Many-coloured Bush-Shrike* Id (Atlas):
    Chlorophoneus multicolor

Description (7)
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Other Scientific Names
Malaconotus multicolor [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Chlorophoneus multicolor

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

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
18 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gray, GR, 1845)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, swamp forest. From sea-level - 2,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola (B) (NB), Cameroon (B) (NB), Cote dIvoire (B) (NB), Central African Republic (B) (NB), Congo (B) (NB), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B) (NB), Equatorial Guinea (B) (NB), Gabon (B) (NB), Ghana (B) (NB), Guinea (B) (NB), Liberia (B) (NB), Mali (B) (NB), Nigeria (B) (NB), Rwanda (B) (NB), Sierra Leone (B) (NB), Togo (B) (NB), Uganda (B) (NB).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A diagnostic call of 'choop' followed quickly by ascending 'sshweet'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (6)...)

 
Many-colored Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) [XC126592]
     by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Atewa Range, Ghana, Ghana (song)

 
Many-colored Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) [XC519843]
     by \u00c9tienne Leroy from For\u00eat class\u00e9e du Mont Tonkoui, Man, Montagnes District, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
Many-coloured Bush-Shrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) and Black-fronted Bush-Shrike (Chlorophoneus nigrifrons) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species within Telophorus contra (Dowsett and Forbes-Watson 1993) who include nigrifrons as a subspecies of multicolor in the genus Malaconotus.

Genus sometimes subsumed in Malaconotus or in Telophorus. Forms a superspecies with Black-fronted Bush-Shrike (Chlorophoneus nigrifrons) and possibly conspecific with it. Occurs in five basic colour morphs with additional six variants, present in varying proportions throughout range and interbreeding freely. Although geographical variation partly obscured by polymorphism, several characters enable differentiation of subspecies.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • multicolor (Gray, GR, 1845)   -  South-western Mali, Sierra Leone, south-eastern Guinea and Liberia east, discontinuously, to western Cameroon.
  • batesi Sharpe, 1908   -  Patchily southern Cameroon, north-eastern Gabon, north-western and south-western PRCongo, north-western Angola, Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo (Ituri) and western Uganda (Kibale).
  • graueri (Hartert, 1908)   -  Montane forests of eastern DRCongo (Kivu south to Itombwe), south-western Uganda and western Rwanda (Nyungwe).



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Many-coloured Bush-Shrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) - 7 files


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