Chestnut-bellied Helmetshrike

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Chestnut-bellied Helmetshrike
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Prionopidae
Genus: Prionops
Species: P. caniceps
Binomial name
Prionops caniceps
(Bonaparte, 1850)

The Chestnut-bellied Helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps) is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

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