| Many-colored bushshrike | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Malaconotidae |
| Genus: | Chlorophoneus |
| Species: | C. multicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlorophoneus multicolor (Gray, 1845)
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| Synonyms | |
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Telophorus multicolor | |
The many-colored bushshrike or many-coloured bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) is a species of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.
The black-fronted bushshrike (C. nigrifrons) of southern and eastern Africa is sometimes included in this species.
It is sparsely present across the African tropical rainforest.
- C. m. multicolor (Gray, GR, 1845) — Sierra Leone to Cameroon ;
- C. m. batesi Sharpe, 1908 — southern Cameroon to western Uganda and northwestern Angola ;
- C. m. graueri (Hartert, 1908) — Albertine Rift montane forests.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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References
- ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Chlorophoneus multicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22730664A118753017. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22730664A118753017.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Sinclair, Ian & Ryan, Peter (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.
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