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- Melignomon zenkeri
Identification
14 cm. Small, thin-billed Honeyguide. Rather plain with dark olive brown upperparts, yellowish buff undersides. Extensive white on outer tail feathers with narrow ( sometimes broken ) terminal band. Eye black, bill black upper mandible, distal 25% black on yellow lower mandible, legs dusky yellowish grey.
Distribution
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Uganda. Western population rather disjunct but could have been overlooked.
Taxonomy
This species is monotypic.1
Habitat
Moist subtropical and tropical lowlands and mountains.
Behaviour
Rather sluggish and easily overlooked. Voice. High, monotonous "teet teet teet"
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
