North Melanesian cuckooshrike

The north Melanesian cuckooshrike (Coracina welchmani)[2] is a species of bird in the cuckooshrike family. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago. It is considered by some ornithologists to be a subspecies of Coracina caledonica.[3][4] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

North Melanesian cuckooshrike
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
Genus: Coracina
Species:
C. welchmani
Binomial name
Coracina welchmani
(Tristram, 1892)

Taxonomy
Syntype of Graucalus (Artamides) welchmani Tristram (NML-VZ T16743) held at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool
Syntype of Graucalus (Artamides) welchmani Tristram (NML-VZ T16749) held at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool

The syntypes of Graucalus (Artamides) welchmani Tristram (Ibis, 1891, p.294), an adult male and a pullus, is held in the vertebrate zoology collection of National Museums Liverpool at World Museum, with accession numbers NML-VZ T16743 and NML-VZ T16749. The specimen was collected in Bugotu Island, Solomon Islands in December 1870 by Dr. Welchman. The specimen came to the Liverpool national collection came to the Liverpool national collection through the purchase of Canon Henry Baker Tristram's collection by the museum in 1896.[5]

References
  1. BirdLife International. 2017. Coracina welchmani (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103694187A112321701. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103694187A112321701.en. Downloaded on 19 July 2018.
  2. Worldbirdnames.org Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Avibase.bsc-eoc.org
  4. "Fatbirder.com". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
  5. R. Wagstaffe (1978-12-01). Type Specimens of Birds in the Merseyside County Museums (formerly City of Liverpool Museums).
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