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Black-chinned Whistler
Pachycephala mentalis Wallace, 1863
Pachycephalidae — Whistlers & Allies
Black-chinned Whistler, Pachycephala mentalis, is a bird of the family Pachycephalidae that breeds in the northern Moluccas. It is found on Halmahera and nearby smaller islands in North Maluku, Indonesia, with recorded subspecies on Tidore, Ternate, Bacan, Morotai, Obi and Bisa. Males have a white throat, a black chest-band that is broken and only clear across the middle of the breast, and a small black chin, which is absent on the Obi Islands form. It was described by Wallace in 1863.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pachycephalidae — Whistlers & Allies
- Breeding range
- Australasia: n Moluccas
