Black pitohui
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pachycephalidae
Genus:	Melanorectes Sharpe, 1877
Species:	M. nigrescens
Binomial name
Melanorectes nigrescens (Schlegel, 1871)
Subspecies
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Synonyms
Pitohui nigrescens Rectes nigrescens

Theblack pitohui (Melanorectes nigrescens) is a species ofbird in themonotypic genus ofMelanorectes in the familyPachycephalidae.It is found throughout the highlands ofNew Guinea.Its naturalhabitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowlandforests.

The black pitohui was originally described in the genusRectes (a synonym for the genusPitohui) and re-classified toMelanorectes in 2013.^[2] Alternate names includeblack whistler anddusky pitohui.

The following sixsubspecies are recognized:^[3]

• M. n. nigrescens –(Schlegel, 1871): Found in northwestern New Guinea
• M. n. wandamensis –(Hartert, 1930): Found in theWandammen Peninsula (western New Guinea)
• M. n. meeki –(Rothschild &Hartert, 1913): Originally described as a separate species in the genusPitohui. Found in west-central New Guinea
• M. n. buergersi –(Stresemann, 1922): Found in northern and east-central New Guinea
• M. n. harterti –Reichenow, 1911: Originally described as a separate species. Found in northeastern New Guinea
• M. n. schistaceus –(Reichenow, 1900): Found in southeastern New Guinea

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• Pachycephalidae
• Birds of the New Guinea Highlands
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• Birds described in 1871
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