INTERGRADATION BETWEEN LEMON-BREASTED FLYCATCHER MICROECA FLAVIGASTER GOULD AND BROWN-TAILED FLYCATCHER MICROECA TORMENTI MATHEWS IN CAMBRIGDE GULF, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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Abstract
The mangroves of Cambridge Gulf Western Australia. are inhabited by flycatchers intermediate between Microeca flavigaster and M. tormenti. In recent times these have been treated as separate species because of fairly pronounced differences in coloration and to a lesser extent habitat preferences. M. flavigaster occurs in a wide variety of woodlands and forests. including mangroves, whereas M. tormenti is confined to mangroves. It is now shown that thwse birds are conspecific.