Mottled berryhunter

Mottled berryhunter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Rhagologidae
Genus: Rhagologus
Stresemann & Paludan, 1934
Species: R. leucostigma
Binomial name
Rhagologus leucostigma
(Salvadori, 1875)

The mottled berryhunter or mottled whistler (Rhagologus leucostigma) is a species of bird whose relationships are unclear but most likely related to the woodswallows, boatbills and butcherbirds. It is monotypic within the genus Rhagologus and family Rhagologidae.[2] It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.[1]

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