Sunda brush cuckoo

Sunda brush cuckoo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cuculiformes
Family:	Cuculidae
Genus:	Cacomantis
Species:	C. sepulcralis
Binomial name
Cacomantis sepulcralis (Müller, S, 1843)

The Sunda brush cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the Sulawesi brush cuckoo with the English name "rusty-breasted cuckoo".

Taxonomy

The Sunda brush cuckoo was formally described in 1843 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller under the binomial name Cuculus sepulcralis.[1][2] It is now placed in the genus Cacomantis that Müller had introduced in the same article as he had described the species.[3] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek κακομαντις (kakomantis) meaning "prophet of evil".[4] The specific epithet sepulcralis is Latin meaning "sepulchral" or "of the tomb".[5]

Two subspecies are recognised:[3]

• C. s. sepulcralis (Müller, S, 1843) – Malay Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra) and Lesser Sunda Islands east to Alor Island
• C. s. everetti Hartert, EJO, 1925 – Basilan and Sulu Archipelago (southwest Philippines)

The Sulawesi brush cuckoo (Cacomantis virescens) was formerly considered as an additional subspecies. The combined taxa were known by the English name "rusty-breasted cuckoo".[3]

References

1. Müller, Salomon (1843). Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis (in Dutch). Vol. 1: Land-en Volkenkunde. Leiden: In commissie bij. S. en J. Luchtmans en C.C. van der Hoek. p. 177, Footnote 2. For the publication date see: Husson, A.M.; Holthuis, L.B. (1955). "The dates of publication of "Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche Bezittingen" edited by C. J. Temminck". Zoologische Mededelingen. 34 (2): 17–24.
2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 24.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
4. Jobling, James A. "Cacomantis". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
5. Jobling, James A. "sepulcralis". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 2 September 2024.