The fruithunter or fruit-hunter (''Chlamydochaera jefferyi''), also known as the black-breasted fruit-hunter, is an enigmatic species of

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currently placed with the typical

thrushes The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution. The family was once much larger before biologists reclassified the former subfamily Saxicolinae, which includes the chats and European robins, as Old World flycat ...

in the

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Turdidae. It is

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to forests on the

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n island of

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. It is highly distinct from other thrushes, instead being convergent to

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such as trillers ('' Lalage'') or true orioles (''

Oriolus Orioles are colourful Old World passerine birds in the genus ''Oriolus'', the type genus of the corvoidean family Oriolidae. They are not closely related to the New World orioles, which are icterids (family Icteridae) that belong to the superfa ...

''). Thus it is placed in a

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''Chlamydochaera''. It was formerly called the black-breasted triller and placed within the family Campephagidae. Its breeding biology has only been recently detailed. The female fruithunter broods and incubates the two eggs that are laid, and the male assists in feeding the nestlings. The fruithunter is not considered a

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by the

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. This species was first described in 1887 by Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on specimens of a male and female collected on Mount Kinabalu.Sharpe, R. B. (1887). Notes on a collection of birds made by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mountain of Kina Balu, in Northern Borneo, with Descriptions of New Species. ''The Ibis'' Fifth Series, Volume 5; pp. 435--454

References

Birds described in 1887 Endemic birds of Borneo Turdidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Fauna of the Borneo montane rain forests {{Turdidae-stub