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Animals Bottle-nosed DolphinBouto

Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
Described by: Hartlaub (1863)
Alternate common name(s): Slate-coloured Boubou
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...

 


Boubou, Slate-coloured Laniarius funebris Found: Africa
Photographed in Tanzania by Dick
Boubou, Southern Laniarius ferrugineus Found: Africa
Photographed by: Linn Currie ...

Genus Laniarius - boubous and gonoleks (15-20 species)
Genus Rhodophoneus - Rosy-patched Bushshrike
Rosy-patched Bushshrike, Rhodophoneus cruentus
Genus Telophorus - formerly in Malaconotus ...

There are currently 16 species recognised in the genus Laniarius, a group of African bush-shrikes (also known as the boubous and gonoleks) that are all rather uniform by size and shape, but often have different combinations of plumage (5).

Prionopidae, helmetshrikes.
Malaconotidae, puffback shrikes, bush shrikes, tchagras and boubous.
Campephagidae, cuckoo-shrikes.

See also: Shrike, Prion, Cuckoo, Magpie, Perch

Animals Bottle-nosed DolphinBouto

 
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