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hooded pitohui
The hooded pitohui (''Pitohui dichrous'') is a pitohui of New Guinea with black and orange plumage. Both male and female birds have colored patches in their plumage. It is one of the few known poisonous birds. This species now usually placed in the family Oriolidae.
==Toxin==
This species and its two close relatives, the variable pitohui and the rusty pitohui, were the first documented poisonous birds other than the poisonous common quail that cause coturnism. A neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin, found in the birds' skin and feathers, causes numbness and tingling in those touching the bird.〔http://fora.tv/2010/03/17/Expedition_Papua_New_Guinea_with_Jack_Dumbacher〕〔Natalie Angier: (''Rare Bird Indeed Carries Poison in Bright Feathers'' ). New York Times 1992-10-30〕
The hooded pitohui may acquire its poison from part of its diet, the ''Choresine'' beetles of the Melyridae family.〔http://www.pnas.org/content/101/45/15857.full〕 These beetles are also a likely source of the lethal batrachotoxins found in Colombia's poison dart frogs.〔Dumbacher et al., PNAS 101(45):15857-15860〕
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