Species profile
Dicrurus dohertyi
Dicrurus dohertyi
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672614, adult male, collected on Obi Major, 01.30 S, 127.45 E (White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Moluccas, Indonesia, in September 1897, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Dicrurus dohertyi
- Family
- Dicruridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Dicrurus
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