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Genus: Cacomantis (11 species)

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Solomons Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis addendus) Range: AU: Solomon Is. (except Rennell)

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Moluccan Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis aeruginosus) Range: AU: n, c Moluccas

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Manus Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis blandus) Range: AU: Ninigo and Admiralty Is. (nw Bismarck Arch.)


Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo (Cacomantis castaneiventris) Range: AU: New Guinea and w satellites, and n, e Cape York Pen., ne QLD (ne Australia) Ok Menga, Papua New Guinea
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Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis flabelliformis) Range: AU, PO: montane New Guinea, sw, e Australia and Tasmania, New Caledonia, Solomon Is., Vanuatu and Fiji (sw Polynesia) Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
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Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus threnodes) Range: OR, AU: se Asia to Philippines Japanese Garden, Singapore Rufous (barred) morph.
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.

The Plaintive Cuckoo has two forms, one with grey head and rufous breast, and one barred (called rufous morph) (HBW).


Grey-bellied Cuckoo (Cacomantis passerinus) Range: OR: India Bhitrkanika, India
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Indian version of the Plaintive Cuckoo.


Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis sepulcralis) Range: OR: Malay Pen. to Greater and Lesser Sundas and sw Philippines Bidadari, Singapore
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Banded Bay Cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii) Range: OR: India and Sri Lanka to s China, se Asia, Greater Sundas and Palawan (sw Philippines) Singapore
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Sahul Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus) Immature Range: AU: e Wallacea, New Guinea region, n, e Australia, Bismarck Arch. and Solomon Is. Fogg Dam, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia
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Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis virescens) Range: AU: Sulawesi, Banggai and Sula is. (e of Sulawesi), Butung (=Buton) and Tukangbesi Is. (s, se of se Sulawesi)

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