Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Little Bronze-cuckoo

Sunday, 10 December 2017

Little Bronze-cuckoo

Order - Cuculiformes
Family - Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Little Bronze-cuckoo

Chrysococcyx minutillus

棕胸金鹃 (zōng xiōng jīn juān)

Malay : Sewah-Daun Biasa

Japanese : アカメテリカッコウ (akame teri-kakkō) / テリカッコウ (teri-kakkō)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 赤目照り郭公 / 照り郭公

Taxonomy update for 2024

Split Pied Bronze-Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx crassirostris) from the widespread Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus); the two are strikingly different in plumage,
but Pied occurs on only a few islands.

  -  Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus)
⦾ Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Little) Chalcites minutillus [minutillus Group]
        RANGE: far s. Thailand and Malay Peninsula, n. Sumatra and w. Java, e. and e.
Borneo, Moluccas, Lesser Sundas, and n. Australia including Melville
Island, e. Australia (southeastern Queensland to northeastern New
South Wales).
⦾ Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Gould’s) Chalcites minutillus [poecilurus Group]
        RANGE: se. Borneo, s. Philippines, Sulawesi and nearby islands, Flores to Alor
in the central Lesser Sundas (populations on Timor and Wetar may
represent an undescribed taxon), lowlands of coastal New Guinea and
adjacent islands, ne. Australia (n. and e. Queensland).
⦾ Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Banda) Chalcites minutillus rufomerus/salvadorii
        RANGE: Lesser Sundas (Romang, Kisar, Leti, Moa, Sermata, Damar, and Babar
Islands).
  -  Pied Bronze-Cuckoo (Chalcites crassirostris)
     RANGE: Moluccas (Tayandu and Kai islands) and Tanimbar Islands (Yamdena and
Larat).

Size : 15–17 cm; 14.5–17 g, 16.9–21 g (russatus)

Subspecies (12) and Distribution

Chrysococcyx minutillus peninsularis (S. A. Parker, 1981)
– Extreme s Thailand and Malay Peninsula.
Chrysococcyx minutillus albifrons (Junge, 1938)
– N Sumatra and w Java.
Chrysococcyx minutillus cleis (S. A. Parker, 1981)
– N and e Borneo.
Chrysococcyx minutillus minutillus (Gould, 1859) – Little Bronze-cuckoo
– Moluccas, W Lesser Sundas and N Australia, from Kimberley district of NW Australia through Melville I and Arnhem Land to N Queensland (Gulf of Carpentaria to W Cape York).
Chrysococcyx minutillus barnardi (Mathews, 1912)
– E Australia (SE Queensland to NE New South Wales).
Chrysococcyx minutillus rufomerus (E. J. O. Hartert, 1900) – Dark-backed Bronze-cuckoo
– E Lesser Sundas (Romang, Damar, Kisar, Leti, Moa, Sermata).
Chrysococcyx minutillus aheneus (Junge, 1938)
– SE Borneo and S Philippines Islands.
Chrysococcyx minutillus jungei (Stresemann, 1938)
– Sulawesi, Madu, Flores, and Timor; the population on Timor may represent an undescribed subspecies.
Chrysococcyx minutillus poecilurus (G. R. Gray, 1862) – Gould's Bronze-cuckoo
– lowlands on N & S coasts of New Guinea, and offshore islands, including W Papuan Is (Misool).
Chrysococcyx minutillus misoriensis (Salvadori, 1876)
– Lowlands of coastal n New Guinea and adjacent islands.
Chrysococcyx minutillus russatus (Gould, 1868)
– N & E Queensland (Cape York S along E coast).
Chrysococcyx minutillus salvadorii (Hartert, EJO; Stresemann, EFT 1925)
– Known from one specimen from Tepa I. (Babar Islands)