The New Caledonian whistler (Pachycephala caledonica) is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae.
It is endemic to New Caledonia.
Taxonomy
The New Caledonian whistler was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the flycatchers in the genusMuscicapa and coined the binomial nameMuscicapa caledonica.[2][3] Gmelin based his account on the "olive flycatcher" from New Caledonia that had been described in 1783 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his book A General Synopsis of Birds. The naturalist Joseph Banks had provided Latham with a drawing of the bird.[4] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]