Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Vigors, NA; Horsfield, T 1827)

Reference:
   Trans. Linn. Soc. London 15, pt.1 p.300

Imprint year:
  1826

Protonym:
  Cuculus variolosus

Type locality:
  Paramatta, New South Wales.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13694#page/309/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  69D823F217B67EA9

Avibase ID:
  avibase-69D823F2

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/69D823F2

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 554694

Geographic range:

• Cacomantis variolosus: lowland to foothill rainforest, scrub, and mangroves, from eastern Lesser Sundas (Timor to Wetar) and the Moluccas eastward through New Guinea, including many satellite islands, to Bismarck Archipelago, and southward to northern and eastern Australia; Australian populations migrate to tropics in winter
• Cacomantis variolosus [variolosus or dumetorum]: breeds northern and eastern Australia (Kimberly to Cape York Peninsula to southern Victoria); winters to Moluccas and New Guinea
• Cacomantis variolosus tymbonomus: eastern Lesser Sundas (Timor, and possibly eastward to Tanimbar Islands)
• Cacomantis variolosus [infaustus or oreophilus]: New Guinea and most satellite islands
• Cacomantis variolosus obscuratus: Numfor (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)
• Cacomantis variolosus major: northern Moluccas (Morotai to Obi)
• Cacomantis variolosus fortior: D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (off southeastern New Guinea)
• Cacomantis variolosus macrocercus: New Ireland and Tabar, and New Britain (eastern Bismarck Archipelago)
• Cacomantis variolosus websteri: New Hanover (northeastern Bismarck Archipelago)
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