BRUSH CUCKOO Cacomantis variolosus # Local name Man Womofèr (Sansundi). Range C. v. infaustus Biak, Supiori, Owi, Numfor, Yapen. No records from Mios Num. Taxonomy Beehler & Pratt (2016) did not recognise C. v. chivae which formerly was regarded as a subspecies endemic to Biak (Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939). Status Resident. Widespread and generally common in selectively logged forest, secondary woodland and primary forest edge. KDB found it to c. 305 m on Supiori. February 1991: recorded on Owi (Gibbs 1993), where seen again on 13 January 1994 (P. Gregory in litt. 2000).

Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130