Black-headed Cuckooshrike
Lalage melanoptera(Rüppell, WPES, 1839)
English (US) Black-headed Cuckooshrike
The Black-headed Cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Campephagidae (Cuckooshrikes) in the order Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Lalage melanoptera
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-headed Cuckooshrike
- Described by
- (Rüppell, WPES, 1839)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Lalage melanoptera melanoptera
- Lalage melanoptera sykesi
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Ceblepyris melanoptera
- Described by
- (Rüppell, WPES, 1839)
- Type locality
- New Holland?; error = Bhadwar, Kangra District, Punjab, as fixed by Delacour, 1951, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1497, p. 15.
- Original description
- Museum Senckenbergianum: Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der beschreibenden Naturgeschichte 3 p.25 pl.2 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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