Many-colored bushshrike

The many-colored bushshrike or many-coloured bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) is a species of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

Many-colored bushshrike
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Malaconotidae
Genus:	Chlorophoneus
Species:	C. multicolor
Binomial name
Chlorophoneus multicolor (Gray, 1845)
Synonyms
Telophorus multicolor Malaconotus multicolor

The black-fronted bushshrike (C. nigrifrons) of southern and eastern Africa is sometimes included in this species.

It is sparsely present across the African tropical rainforest.

• C. m. multicolor (Gray, GR, 1845) — Sierra Leone to Cameroon ;
• C. m. batesi Sharpe, 1908 — southern Cameroon to western Uganda and northwestern Angola ;
• C. m. graueri (Hartert, 1908) — Albertine Rift montane forests.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.