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Pheasant coucal
The pheasant coucal (''Centropus phasianinus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It has adapted well to canefields in northern Australia.〔Blakers et al. (1984). ''The Atlas of Australian Birds'', Carlton: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84285-2〕 The pheasant coucal is unusual among Australian cuckoos in that it incubates and raises its own young instead of laying its eggs in the nest of another species.
==Taxonomy==
The ornithologist John Latham described the pheasant coucal as ''Cuculus phasianinus'' in 1801, based on a drawing by Thomas Watling. Six subspecies are recognised, two of which are found in Australia with an abrupt demarcation between them occurring around the Burdekin River in Central Queensland. South is the nominate subspecies ''phasianinus'', while north is the subspecies ''melanurus'', which is larger in size and has darker and more prominent black bands on its rectrices. The little known subspecies ''mui'' is found in eastern Timor, and has distinctive white plumage of its upperparts, head and breast. The remaining three subspecies are found in New Guinea, and all have darker plumage than other forms. Subspecies ''thierfelderi'' is found in the Trans-fly region in the south of the island and is intermediate between ''melanurus'' and ''nigricans''. Subspecies ''nigricans'' occurs in the eastern coastal regions of New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. ''Propinquus'' is a smaller subspecies from northern New Guinea.〔
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