White-crowned cuckoo

White-crowned cuckoo
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cuculiformes
Family:	Cuculidae
Genus:	Cacomantis
Species:	C. leucolophus
Binomial name
	Cacomantis leucolophus; (Müller, 1840)
Synonyms
	Caliechthrus leucolophus

The white-crowned cuckoo or white-crowned koel (Cacomantis leucolophus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It was originally described by Salomon Müller as Cuculus leucolophus^[1]. It was later placed in the monotypic genus Caliechthrus^{[citation needed]}, but most taxonomists place it the genus Cacomantis because it has a similar song to other cuckoos in this genus and it is genetically similar to the pallid cuckoo (Cacomantis pallidus).^[2] It is found in New Guinea and neighbouring Salawati Island.

References

^ Müller, Salomon (1840). "Bijdragen de kennis van Nieuw-Guinea". Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen (in Dutch). 1: 22, 233.
^ Payne, Robert B. (2005) The Cuckoos, Oxford University Press.

BirdLife International 2004. Caliechthrus leucolophus.

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

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[1] Müller, Salomon (1840). "Bijdragen de kennis van Nieuw-Guinea". Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen (in Dutch). 1: 22, 233.

[2] Payne, Robert B. (2005) The Cuckoos, Oxford University Press.

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