| Black-breasted Fruit-hunter | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Turdidae |
| Genus: | Chlamydochaera Sharpe, 1887 |
| Species: | C. jefferyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlamydochaera jefferyi Sharpe, 1887 |
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The Black-breasted Fruit-hunter (Chlamydochaera jefferyi) is an enigmatic species of bird nowadays placed with the typical thrushes in the family Turdidae. It is endemic to forests on the south-east Asian island Borneo.
It is highly distinct from other thrushes, instead being convergent to Corvoidea such as trillers (Lalage) or true orioles (Oriolus). Thus, it is placed in a monotypic genus Chlamydochaera.
The Black-breasted Fruit-hunter is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.