Large woodshrike
Species of bird
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The large woodshrike (Tephrodornis virgatus) is found in south-eastern Asia, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo.[2] Its natural habitats are temperate forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
| Large woodshrike | |
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| At Manas National Park in Assam, India. | |
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| At Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, India. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Vangidae |
| Genus: | Tephrodornis |
| Species: | T. virgatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tephrodornis virgatus (Temminck, 1824) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Taxonomy
It is usually placed in the family Vangidae. The Malabar woodshrike is sometimes considered conspecific with the large woodshrike.
Subspecies
Ten subspecies are recognised:[3]
- T. v. pelvicus (Hodgson, 1837) – east Himalayas to north Myanmar
- T. v. jugans Deignan, 1948 – east Myanmar, south China and north Thailand
- T. v. verneyi Kinnear, 1924 – southeast Myanmar, southwest Thailand and north Malay Peninsula
- T. v. annectens Robinson & Kloss, 1918 – central Malay Peninsula
- T. v. fretensis Robinson & Kloss, 1920 – south Malay Peninsula and north Sumatra
- T. v. virgatus (Temminck, 1824) – south Sumatra, Java and Bali
- T. v. frenatus Büttikofer, 1887 – Borneo
- T. v. mekongensis Meyer de Schauensee, 1946 – southeast Thailand to south Vietnam
- T. v. hainanus Ogilvie-Grant, 1910 – north Laos, north Vietnam and Hainan (off southeast China)
- T. v. latouchei Kinnear, 1925 – south China