Quail-thrush

A quail-thrush is a bird of the genus Cinclosoma, which contains eight species. Quail-thrushes are in a different family from either quails or thrushes, but bear some superficial resemblance to them. The genus is found in Australia and New Guinea in a variety of habitats ranging from rainforest to deserts. The genus is closely related to the jewel-babblers of New Guinea. Seven species were recognised in 2007.^[2] A molecular study published in 2015 by Gaynor Dolman and Leo Joseph resulted in the splitting of the chestnut-backed quail-thrush into the chestnut quail-thrush of eastern Australia and the copperback quail-thrush in the west.^[3]

Cinclosoma
Chestnut quail-thrush (Cinclosoma castanotum)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cinclosomatidae
Genus:	Cinclosoma Vigors & Horsfield, 1827
Type species
Turdus punctatus[1] Shaw, 1794

Species

Nest of Cinclosoma marginatum photographed by Whitlock, East Murchison 1909

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Painted quail-thrush	Cinclosoma ajax	New Guinea.
	Spotted quail-thrush	Cinclosoma punctatum	Australia.
	Copperback quail-thrush	Cinclosoma clarum	Australia.
	Chestnut quail-thrush	Cinclosoma castanotum	Australia
	Chestnut-breasted quail-thrush	Cinclosoma castaneothorax	Australia (New South Wales, Queensland and Perth.)
	Western quail-thrush	Cinclosoma marginatum	Australia.
	Nullarbor quail-thrush	Cinclosoma alisteri	Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia
	Cinnamon quail-thrush	Cinclosoma cinnamomeum	central Australia