The barred cuckooshrike (''Coracina lineata''), also called the yellow-eyed cuckooshrike, is a species of

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in the family Campephagidae. It is found in eastern

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, and

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Taxonomy

Subspecies

* ''Coracina lineata lineata'': Northeast Australia (east Cape York Peninsula to northeast New South Wales) * ''Coracina lineata axillaris'': Mountains of central New Guinea and Waigeo Island. * ''Coracina lineata maforensis'': Numfor Island (New Guinea) * ''Coracina lineata sublineata'': Bismarck Archipelago (New Ireland and New Britain) * ''Coracina lineata nigrifrons'': Solomon Islands (Bougainville, Choiseul and Santa Isabel) * ''Coracina lineata ombriosa'': Solomon Is. (Kolombangara, New Georgia Group and Rendova) * ''Coracina lineata pusilla'': Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) * ''Coracina lineata malaitae'': Malaita (Solomon Islands) * ''Coracina lineata makirae'': Makira (Solomon Islands) * ''Coracina lineata gracilis'': Rennell (Solomon Islands) The

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ...

of ''Graucalus nigrifrons'' Tristram (Ibis, 1892, p.294), an adult male, is held in the vertebrate zoology collection of

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, with accession number NML-VZ T16744. The specimen was collected in Bugotu,

, in 1890 by Dr. Welchman. The specimen came to the Liverpool national collection through the purchase of Canon

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's collection by the museum in 1896.

Gallery

Image:Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike rushck.ogv, Rush Creek, SE Queensland, Australia File:NML-VZ T16744 Graucalus nigrifrons.jpg, Holotype of ''Graucalus nigrifrons'' Tristram (NML-VZ T16744) held at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool

References

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