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Black-winged Cuckooshrike
Lalage melaschistos (Hodgson, 1836)
Campephagidae — Cuckooshrikes
Black-winged Cuckooshrike, Lalage melaschistos, is a passerine of the Himalayas and south-east Asia, breeding across the Oriental Region from the lower Himalayan belt into the hills of north-east Myanmar and onward through China and south-east Asia. It is a cuckooshrike in the family Campephagidae. The bird has grey upperparts, black wings, a white vent and a graduated tail with white tips, along with a black bill and legs. Females are paler across the group, and the species nests in trees. It breeds in deciduous and broad-leaved evergreen forest.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Campephagidae — Cuckooshrikes
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Himalayas through se Asia
