The fruithunterorfruit-hunter (Chlamydochaera jefferyi), also known as the black-breasted fruit-hunter, is an enigmatic species of bird currently placed with the typical thrushes in the family Turdidae. It is endemic to forests on the south-east Asian island of Borneo.[2]
It is highly distinct from other thrushes, instead being convergenttoCorvoidea such as trillers (Lalage) or true orioles (Oriolus). Thus it is placed in a monotypicgenusChlamydochaera.[citation needed] It was formerly called the black-breasted triller and placed within the family Campephagidae. Its breeding biology has only been recently detailed.[3] The female fruithunter broods and incubates the two eggs that are laid, and the male assists in feeding the nestlings.
^Phillipps, Quentin & Phillipps, Karen (2011). Phillipps' Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo. Oxford, UK: John Beaufoy Publishing. ISBN978-1-906780-56-2.
^Sharpe, R. B. (1887). Notes on a collection of birds made by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mountain of Kina Balu, in Northern Borneo, with Descriptions of New Species.
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